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Ads in the start menu and on the lock screen are apparently perfectly normal to end users now. It's honestly just sad.
by parliament32 7y ago
Ads in the start menu and on the lock screen are apparently perfectly normal to end users now. It's honestly just sad.
- fortran77 7y agoBut these weren't ads on the start menu. He was talking about ads in a web page that the browser he chose to run (Edge is now the standard browser, not IE) displayed.
- raxxorrax 7y agoThe unmodified login screen sometimes features ads. Have only seen stuff from MS itself though. "Show suggestions occasionally in Start" in the useless redundant new settings app is something that should be a completely optional component and not intrinsic to the operating system. I mean the pictures are nice, but it is personalized by proclamation, so they have to farm at least some data. All this stuff needs to be patched out yesterday in my opinion.
- ijpoijpoihpiuoh 7y agoI don't see any ads on my W10 machine and I haven't done anything to disable them. Where are you seeing this?
- specktr 7y agoIn the start menu. It could be that there are different definitions of ads. But on my windows system I get ads for games and other applications that they want me to install. I think they even install some of them like candy crush without asking me first (I disabled this in registry). Figured companies pay microsoft to promote their apps.
- parliament32 7y agohttps://www.theverge.com/2017/3/17/14956540/microsoft-windows-10-ads-taskbar-file-explorer https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/17/14956540/microsoft-window... https://www.pcworld.com/article/3039827/7-ways-windows-10-pushes-ads-at-you-and-how-to-stop-them.html https://www.pcworld.com/article/3039827/7-ways-windows-10-pu...