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Because you pay Microsoft to use Windows, and you pay them a lot. With HBO streaming you can always skip past those ads, and I've never seen them on Prime video
by jolux 10y ago
Because you pay Microsoft to use Windows, and you pay them a lot. With HBO streaming you can always skip past those ads, and I've never seen them on Prime videos (if you could again you can skip past them). With Google, they're giving you the service for free, so ads are expected.
If I'm going to shell out $120 for a Windows license, I don't want to see goddamn ads built into the fucking operating system.
- perfectstorm 10y agoGoogle started playing ads on their $129 Google Home just the other day (http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/3/16/14948696/google-home-assistant-advertising-beauty-and-the-beast http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/3/16/14948696/go...). Apple shows ads to older iPhone users (https://9to5mac.com/2015/12/11/apple-advertising-iphone-6s-to-older-iphone-owners-through-app-store-popups/ https://9to5mac.com/2015/12/11/apple-advertising-iphone-6s-t...). how is this any different ? Actually Windows can at least be turned off.
- jolux 10y agoGoogle is a goddamn ad company, I expect that kind of bullshit from them. Does that Apple ad come up more than once? If it does, yeah that's pretty annoying and disappointing too.