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Who needs to get work done? Just make the entire OS an advertisement platform already that fills the screen with ads. Mike Judge's Idiocracy satire was ahead o

Who needs to get work done? Just make the entire OS an advertisement platform already that fills the screen with ads. Mike Judge's Idiocracy satire was ahead of the curve on this one: https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F44514a34-c72e-490b-b1b2-f1866c2aafa4_1920x1080.png https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_pr...

e3bc54b2 4y ago
When I first watched that movie I never thought it would be so on the point, just 15 years too early..
weberer 4y ago
They must have hired that guy to design the UI for Windows Phone.
- dagw 4y ago
  Did you ever use Windows Phone? Personally I consider it the high water mark of phone UIs and my Nokia Lumia is still one of my favourite phones I've owned. Unfortunately the app ecosystem was never there, greatly limiting what you could actually do with the phone.
  - pedro2 4y ago
    Still expecting [not really but...] that Microsoft releases a new Windows Phone with Android app support via WSL2. Not that I'd buy it -- but would bring competition to Google.
ticviking 4y ago
These issues are why I’ve paid the pain to migrate myself onto Linux. I’m still not half as productive as I am on my company windows machine but I see far fewer adds day to day
herbst 4y ago
I think people who use Windows don't even realize how the OS slowly get more distracting over time, making people used to all this. I am always amazed on how passively and non annoyed people click away all these virus scanner and whatever popups popping up whatever you are doing. Sure I may be biased, I get aggressions when YouTube forces a second ad. And my brain was turned upside down when I realized smart TVs introduced smart ads that may take 20% of the screen, whenever and people still don't seem to care. I am so glad I live behind a pihole in a Linux only network, without 'normal' TV. I am sure I see at least 95% less ads than my average peers.
- ocdtrekkie 4y ago
  It really depends how you operate Windows. Almost every misbehavior has a way to turn it off, it's just a matter of finding it. Also, people need to use Firefox. With Firefox's tracking prevention, at this point my Pihole barely gets a workout. I reimplemented it recently on my network and it barely did anything, I am already controlling most of it at the PC or browser level.
  - herbst 4y ago
    I don't think that counts if you either need questionable third party tools (usually also coming with ads) or extensive knowledge of the operating system to switch of this 'misbehaviour'. My mum is not able to operate Windows without ad and in-os-spam issues. Pi-Hole is only good for what it does. You have full control (and overview) what your network is requesting and can block everything you don't need. The way I use it it takes time to operate. Like blocking most of whatever IoT devices are doing works like charm. Or whatever my smartTV was sending every other hour for no reason. It doesn't block ads that are served on the same domains as the content, obviously. (Youtube, Twitch, ...) Only the client can filter those.
  - ehvatum 4y ago
    > Also, people need to use Firefox I would, if Firefox would stop deteriorating. They are down to miniscule marketshare and continue redesigning their GUI, disabling features, preventing ad-blocking, launching pointless annoying services. Firefox of 2014 was a far better product than Firefox of 2022.

e3bc54b2 4y ago

When I first watched that movie I never thought it would be so on the point, just 15 years too early..

weberer 4y ago

They must have hired that guy to design the UI for Windows Phone.

dagw 4y ago
Did you ever use Windows Phone? Personally I consider it the high water mark of phone UIs and my Nokia Lumia is still one of my favourite phones I've owned. Unfortunately the app ecosystem was never there, greatly limiting what you could actually do with the phone.
- pedro2 4y ago
  Still expecting [not really but...] that Microsoft releases a new Windows Phone with Android app support via WSL2. Not that I'd buy it -- but would bring competition to Google.

ticviking 4y ago

These issues are why I’ve paid the pain to migrate myself onto Linux. I’m still not half as productive as I am on my company windows machine but I see far fewer adds day to day

herbst 4y ago

I think people who use Windows don't even realize how the OS slowly get more distracting over time, making people used to all this. I am always amazed on how passively and non annoyed people click away all these virus scanner and whatever popups popping up whatever you are doing. Sure I may be biased, I get aggressions when YouTube forces a second ad. And my brain was turned upside down when I realized smart TVs introduced smart ads that may take 20% of the screen, whenever and people still don't seem to care. I am so glad I live behind a pihole in a Linux only network, without 'normal' TV. I am sure I see at least 95% less ads than my average peers.

ocdtrekkie 4y ago
It really depends how you operate Windows. Almost every misbehavior has a way to turn it off, it's just a matter of finding it. Also, people need to use Firefox. With Firefox's tracking prevention, at this point my Pihole barely gets a workout. I reimplemented it recently on my network and it barely did anything, I am already controlling most of it at the PC or browser level.
- herbst 4y ago
  I don't think that counts if you either need questionable third party tools (usually also coming with ads) or extensive knowledge of the operating system to switch of this 'misbehaviour'. My mum is not able to operate Windows without ad and in-os-spam issues. Pi-Hole is only good for what it does. You have full control (and overview) what your network is requesting and can block everything you don't need. The way I use it it takes time to operate. Like blocking most of whatever IoT devices are doing works like charm. Or whatever my smartTV was sending every other hour for no reason. It doesn't block ads that are served on the same domains as the content, obviously. (Youtube, Twitch, ...) Only the client can filter those.
- ehvatum 4y ago
  > Also, people need to use Firefox I would, if Firefox would stop deteriorating. They are down to miniscule marketshare and continue redesigning their GUI, disabling features, preventing ad-blocking, launching pointless annoying services. Firefox of 2014 was a far better product than Firefox of 2022.