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Do you think they will start showing advertisements on the Windows 10? Like if you're in settings and a banner ad pops up.

by _RPM 10y ago

reitanqild 10y ago
Sad to say, but yes, also on my professional edition I think. (A "recommended apps" ad in the start menu.)
- pizzachef2 10y ago
  You can turn those off.
  - cm2187 10y ago
    Or you can have no appetite to play whack-a-mole with microsoft's privacy settings and refuse to upgrade.
    - morganvachon 10y ago
      > whack-a-mole with microsoft's privacy settings Indeed, their ever-changing "Get Windows 10" dialog is appalling. It's like a real life version of Cat Facts[1], or those stupid Best Buy emails I started getting after I bought a memory card from them and made absolutely sure I wasn't sharing my email address or signing up for anything. Hitting the "unsubscribe" link in the email resulted in more frequent spam from them, rather than actually unsubbing me. [1] http://i.imgur.com/rsQ93.png http://i.imgur.com/rsQ93.png
  - TrevorJ 10y ago
    Why should I have to spend any of my time on that shit instead of doing the work I have to do? I'm not a set of eyeballs for MS to sell. That shit might fly on Facebook or other free services, but the OS is a productivity enabler and that is all. The minute it actively tries to get in the way of my productivity in an effort to turn me into a product, I'm done with it.
userbinator 10y ago
They already are, as you can see from the numerous articles here and elsewhere on the Internet, as well as my personal experience. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11167964 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11167964 http://betanews.com/2015/10/15/microsoft-now-uses-windows-10s-start-menu-to-display-ads/ http://betanews.com/2015/10/15/microsoft-now-uses-windows-10... http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-07/30/windows-10-paid-ad-removal-solitaire http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-07/30/windows-10-pa...
- Kronopath 10y ago
  You think that's bad? I only upgraded to Windows 10 last week, and within minutes of booting it up, it quietly started downloading "Candy Crush Soda Saga" without my permission. I only caught it because I noticed the download indicator in my Start menu, at which point I cancelled it. Apparently there's no simple user option to turn these auto-downloaded apps off either.
  - TrevorJ 10y ago
    The thing that grinds my gears is that MS cleary does not think people use Windows to do real work any more. None of this shit flies in an environment where you are billing hourly and need to be in control of your own software/hardware.
- slowmovintarget 10y ago
  Wow. You now have to pay a monthly fee to avoid 30 second videos in Solitaire ! That's almost extortion. "It's a shame if something were to happen with all that time you got here."
  - MLR 10y ago
    There are adverts in some of the new gamemodes in the Windows 10 version of Solitaire, if you just play classic there arent any.

Do you think they will start showing advertisements on the Windows 10? Like if you're in settings and a banner ad pops up.

by _RPM 10y ago

Do you think they will start showing advertisements on the Windows 10? Like if you're in settings and a banner ad pops up.

reitanqild 10y ago

Sad to say, but yes, also on my professional edition I think. (A "recommended apps" ad in the start menu.)

pizzachef2 10y ago
You can turn those off.
- cm2187 10y ago
  Or you can have no appetite to play whack-a-mole with microsoft's privacy settings and refuse to upgrade.
  - morganvachon 10y ago
    > whack-a-mole with microsoft's privacy settings Indeed, their ever-changing "Get Windows 10" dialog is appalling. It's like a real life version of Cat Facts[1], or those stupid Best Buy emails I started getting after I bought a memory card from them and made absolutely sure I wasn't sharing my email address or signing up for anything. Hitting the "unsubscribe" link in the email resulted in more frequent spam from them, rather than actually unsubbing me. [1] http://i.imgur.com/rsQ93.png http://i.imgur.com/rsQ93.png
- TrevorJ 10y ago
  Why should I have to spend any of my time on that shit instead of doing the work I have to do? I'm not a set of eyeballs for MS to sell. That shit might fly on Facebook or other free services, but the OS is a productivity enabler and that is all. The minute it actively tries to get in the way of my productivity in an effort to turn me into a product, I'm done with it.

userbinator 10y ago

They already are, as you can see from the numerous articles here and elsewhere on the Internet, as well as my personal experience. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11167964 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11167964 http://betanews.com/2015/10/15/microsoft-now-uses-windows-10s-start-menu-to-display-ads/ http://betanews.com/2015/10/15/microsoft-now-uses-windows-10... http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-07/30/windows-10-paid-ad-removal-solitaire http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-07/30/windows-10-pa...

Kronopath 10y ago
You think that's bad? I only upgraded to Windows 10 last week, and within minutes of booting it up, it quietly started downloading "Candy Crush Soda Saga" without my permission. I only caught it because I noticed the download indicator in my Start menu, at which point I cancelled it. Apparently there's no simple user option to turn these auto-downloaded apps off either.
- TrevorJ 10y ago
  The thing that grinds my gears is that MS cleary does not think people use Windows to do real work any more. None of this shit flies in an environment where you are billing hourly and need to be in control of your own software/hardware.
slowmovintarget 10y ago
Wow. You now have to pay a monthly fee to avoid 30 second videos in Solitaire ! That's almost extortion. "It's a shame if something were to happen with all that time you got here."
- MLR 10y ago
  There are adverts in some of the new gamemodes in the Windows 10 version of Solitaire, if you just play classic there arent any.