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I haven't updated to Creators Update, but I see no advertisements in any of those places (or anywhere else, actually). I did turn off "Get fun facts, tips, and

by gregmac 10y ago

I haven't updated to Creators Update, but I see no advertisements in any of those places (or anywhere else, actually). I did turn off "Get fun facts, tips, and more from Windows and Cortana on your lock screen". There's also a ton of garbage pinned on the start menu by default (which I've also removed), but I'm not really sure it qualifies as 'advertising'.

khedoros1 10y ago
The "Windows Spotlight" lockscreen option occasionally displays ads (they're the "more" in "fun facts, tips, and more", apparently). The start menu frequently showed suggested apps for me to download from the store, until I disabled all the live tiles. The notification area told me to use Edge every time I started up another browser (disabled those notifications too). These are all forms of advertising couched as "helpful tips", with the goal of encouraging me to use products that I'm not already using.