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I'm not saying it's not true but I am yet to see any advertisement in my Windows 10 anywhere... even Explorer! Anyone else?

kodfodrasz 9y ago
I have also not seen any anytime. It is also true that I only use managed Enterprise, and a pro at home where I have o365 subscription.
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jcrawfordor 9y ago
I think people have a bit of a popular misconception about the Explorer advertising thing. What's happening is that MS is adding a banner to Explorer advertising paid OneDrive subscriptions. I totally agree that it's massively inappropriate, but I do think that most people are imagining third-party advertising which is not what's happening - a lot of people might not consider the current situation to be an "ad" necessarily since it is pushing a subscription for OneDrive, a Microsoft product that you already have installed. It's more of an in-app purchase kind of offer.
- sbarre 9y ago
  Yeah I don't understand why people are freaking out about this. I know the icon is there, but I never "see" it and I'll never click on it.. So who cares..
- badthingfactory 9y ago
  As-is, I don't think it's a big deal. This is a slippery slope though. Look at what cable television has become. You pay for the product and they shove advertisements down your throat. Satellite radio is doing the same thing.
- Karunamon 9y ago
  I don't particular care who is trying to sell me shit in the file manager, I care that shit is being sold in the file manager. In an operating system I paid $100 for. Unacceptable.
  - Rusky 9y ago
    The shit being sold in the file manager is... space in the cloud for your files. Which is managed by the file manager.
    - Karunamon 9y ago
      Which I already paid for as part of the operating system. If they want to advertise to me, they can give me my money back.
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 9y ago
  If this is all it is, then it is not unprecedented. I remember that Windows 95 did something similar with MSN (which at that time was also a dialup service).
  - jcrawfordor 9y ago
    Yeah, I recently installed Windows 95 in a VM to run some old software and I was actually quite surprised at how hard it pushes MSN - the "connect to the internet" wizard it presents basically asks if you're on a LAN and, if you say no, tells you to call MSN to sign up.
Semaphor 9y ago
It's all in the settings. I never had ads or privacy problems, but if you leave everything at the default settings, you'll have those problems
- SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
  I agree that it's all in the settings, but I also had to turn off Cortana making suggestions in 3 different spots. MS definitely didn't make it easy to get it to stop harassing you.
komali2 9y ago
They don't necessarily make it easy to turn off all the weird ad-type-stuff, but they don't make it impossible either. A quick tour through settings on install can get rid of it all. There is still one absolutely heinous crime though - your system comes preinstalled with Minecraft and Candy Crush (and a couple other bullshit softares), and if you uninstall them, Windows 10 will automatically reinstall them. You have to do esoteric shit in the registry editor to disable this. It infuriates me.
- cryptarch 9y ago
  Are you for real? Is this really the world most of my friends live in?
- anonymfus 9y ago
  >There is still one absolutely heinous crime though - your system comes preinstalled with Minecraft and Candy Crush (and a couple other bullshit softares), and if you uninstall them, Windows 10 will automatically reinstall them. That was fixed in Creators Update: it now remembers uninstalled default applications.
  - komali2 9y ago
    I'm not 100% on this, but I'm fairly certain I wiped and reinstalled Windows on my surface after the creator's update, and I still had this issue.
    - dlp211 9y ago
      You wiped, how would the OS remember?
      - komali2 9y ago
        As in, after I wiped, I uninstalled Minecraft, and within 5 minutes it was reinstalling.
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badthingfactory 9y ago
I formatted a few weeks ago. After installing Chrome and opening it, a popover appeared over the Edge icon in my toolbar explaining how much faster it is. I've also seen a few OneDrive ads.
iaml 9y ago
I recently did a fresh install of creators update on my laptop. Not only does it have crapware bundled that I had to uninstall, it has placeholders for apps from store which is literally advertisement. I also got edge ads when I was downloading other browser. I preemptively disabled all other "suggestions", but saying that windows 10 doesn't have ads is a blatant lie.

kodfodrasz 9y ago

I have also not seen any anytime. It is also true that I only use managed Enterprise, and a pro at home where I have o365 subscription.

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jcrawfordor 9y ago

I think people have a bit of a popular misconception about the Explorer advertising thing. What's happening is that MS is adding a banner to Explorer advertising paid OneDrive subscriptions. I totally agree that it's massively inappropriate, but I do think that most people are imagining third-party advertising which is not what's happening - a lot of people might not consider the current situation to be an "ad" necessarily since it is pushing a subscription for OneDrive, a Microsoft product that you already have installed. It's more of an in-app purchase kind of offer.

sbarre 9y ago
Yeah I don't understand why people are freaking out about this. I know the icon is there, but I never "see" it and I'll never click on it.. So who cares..
badthingfactory 9y ago
As-is, I don't think it's a big deal. This is a slippery slope though. Look at what cable television has become. You pay for the product and they shove advertisements down your throat. Satellite radio is doing the same thing.
Karunamon 9y ago
I don't particular care who is trying to sell me shit in the file manager, I care that shit is being sold in the file manager. In an operating system I paid $100 for. Unacceptable.
- Rusky 9y ago
  The shit being sold in the file manager is... space in the cloud for your files. Which is managed by the file manager.
  - Karunamon 9y ago
    Which I already paid for as part of the operating system. If they want to advertise to me, they can give me my money back.
RcouF1uZ4gsC 9y ago
If this is all it is, then it is not unprecedented. I remember that Windows 95 did something similar with MSN (which at that time was also a dialup service).
- jcrawfordor 9y ago
  Yeah, I recently installed Windows 95 in a VM to run some old software and I was actually quite surprised at how hard it pushes MSN - the "connect to the internet" wizard it presents basically asks if you're on a LAN and, if you say no, tells you to call MSN to sign up.

Semaphor 9y ago

It's all in the settings. I never had ads or privacy problems, but if you leave everything at the default settings, you'll have those problems

SomeStupidPoint 9y ago
I agree that it's all in the settings, but I also had to turn off Cortana making suggestions in 3 different spots. MS definitely didn't make it easy to get it to stop harassing you.

komali2 9y ago

They don't necessarily make it easy to turn off all the weird ad-type-stuff, but they don't make it impossible either. A quick tour through settings on install can get rid of it all. There is still one absolutely heinous crime though - your system comes preinstalled with Minecraft and Candy Crush (and a couple other bullshit softares), and if you uninstall them, Windows 10 will automatically reinstall them. You have to do esoteric shit in the registry editor to disable this. It infuriates me.

cryptarch 9y ago
Are you for real? Is this really the world most of my friends live in?
anonymfus 9y ago
>There is still one absolutely heinous crime though - your system comes preinstalled with Minecraft and Candy Crush (and a couple other bullshit softares), and if you uninstall them, Windows 10 will automatically reinstall them. That was fixed in Creators Update: it now remembers uninstalled default applications.
- komali2 9y ago
  I'm not 100% on this, but I'm fairly certain I wiped and reinstalled Windows on my surface after the creator's update, and I still had this issue.
  - dlp211 9y ago
    You wiped, how would the OS remember?
    - komali2 9y ago
      As in, after I wiped, I uninstalled Minecraft, and within 5 minutes it was reinstalling.
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badthingfactory 9y ago

I formatted a few weeks ago. After installing Chrome and opening it, a popover appeared over the Edge icon in my toolbar explaining how much faster it is. I've also seen a few OneDrive ads.

iaml 9y ago

I recently did a fresh install of creators update on my laptop. Not only does it have crapware bundled that I had to uninstall, it has placeholders for apps from store which is literally advertisement. I also got edge ads when I was downloading other browser. I preemptively disabled all other "suggestions", but saying that windows 10 doesn't have ads is a blatant lie.