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Every couple of weeks Windows shows a FULL SCREEN advertisement during boot/login which requires several clicks to get rid of. They advertise everything starti
by AshamedCaptain 4y ago
Every couple of weeks Windows shows a FULL SCREEN advertisement during boot/login which requires several clicks to get rid of.
They advertise everything starting from Microsoft Accounts, OneDrive, MS Edge ( https://www.windowslatest.com/2020/11/15/windows-10-is-now-nagging-users-with-microsoft-edge-recommendations/ https://www.windowslatest.com/2020/11/15/windows-10-is-now-n... ) , Windows 11 ( https://mspoweruser.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/1670139498_windows_10_to_11_oobe_update.jpg https://mspoweruser.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/167013949... ) , and a long etc.
This is not a small advert in a small corner of the start menu. These are full-screen adverts that interrupt your use of the computer until you click.
What on Earth could they possibly do now to top that ?
- metalliqaz 4y agoStrange, I have never seen those ads. Are they restricted to the Home editions? I use Enterprise.
- grujicd 4y agoIt's on Professional as well.
- wvenable 4y agoI'm on professional and while I have seen this after a major update, it's definitely not every couple of weeks. Maybe once a year.
- uxp100 4y agoI have never seen them either, i was surprised to hear people talking about them on windows 10. I have a pretty aggressive hosts file blocking stuff, plus ran some supposedly telemetry removing commands in the past, so I guess that must be it.
- rolph 4y agostart making them into onboarding installs is one think off the top of my head.
- damnesian 4y agoI'm surprised that is not already happening. Plenty of precedent for that out there.
- otikik 4y agoEach one of those ads is a free ad for Apple and Linux. “If you had Apple, you wouldn’t have to endure this!”
- smnrchrds 4y agoI wish Apple was actually good in that regard. I ended up uninstalling Apple Stocks app from my Mac and iPhone because of all the terrible ads. The ads I saw were even worse than this: https://images.app.goo.gl/dVbDoBuScVzp3uAg9 https://images.app.goo.gl/dVbDoBuScVzp3uAg9
- latsnoopy 4y agowtf, i have never seen any add in ios including stock app
- tpmx 4y agoWhat the actual f? Good thing I don't live in a very high ARPU area. That insulates you from a surprising amount of crazy stuff. I mean, just not living in US/UK will get you quite far.
- YawningAngel 4y agoIf the worst problem you have is ads in your stocks app, it sounds like Apple is still coming out way ahead. I agree that they're squandering brand value for what must be a very marginal gain though
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- mostlysimilar 4y agoIt also infuriates me that they won't let you actually say no. It's always "remind me later" or "skip for now" or "try again in 3 days". What has gotten into the minds of these people? Why do they think this is at all acceptable?
- DANmode 4y ago> Why do they think this is at all acceptable? You're still a Windows user, aren't you? (No judgement, just answering the question!)
- gary_0 4y agoMicrosoft has 95% of the desktop OS market, they can abuse their users with impunity until that number starts to go down.
- blibble 4y agoit's down into the 75% range now and is continuing to drop https://www.statista.com/statistics/218089/global-market-share-of-windows-7/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/218089/global-market-sha... (reminds me of the IE market share graph actually)
- gary_0 4y agoI think that includes laptops, where macOS is very popular? For gaming, at least, Steam's stats show 96% Windows.
- KronisLV 4y agoHere's the relevant Steam Hardware & Software Survey link: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey For convenience: Windows 96.37% OSX 2.37% Linux 1.27% Gaming wise, that's pretty dire. Proton is pretty nice on Linux, but still doesn't and probably never will support all of the titles that people might want to play. In addition, I doubt many companies out there want to test their game releases on multiple OSes and try to fix all of the bugs if they can even port the games, all for less than 4% increased profits.
- max51 4y ago>What on Earth could they possibly do now to top that ? Autoplaying videos with sound
- lotsofpulp 4y agoThat auto pause if your eyes look away.
- ChickenNugger 4y agoDRINK VERIFICATION CAN
- max51 4y agowith VR/AR, there is no place to look away ;)
- ridgered4 4y agoWith eye tracking they will be able to determine your interest level to allow additional targeted advertising of things that you eye lingers on. If you saw an alcohol ad and lingered on it because you're a recovering alcoholic they'll know to really ramp up the ads on that since they've identified you as having a weakness to them. Maybe they'll even use iris scans or databases of eye movement patterns to identify you as an individual for even better user tracking.
- rad_gruchalski 4y agoFunny you say that. Have you noticed how yourube adverts now pause when you scroll into comments?
- WeylandYutani 4y agoMy YT Vanced recently broke. So I reinstalled stock YT and my god the ads are baaaaaaad. How do people put up with it? Using newpipe now.
- omoikane 4y ago
- soraminazuki 4y agoFor me, it was worse. It happened every time I booted Windows because I only used it occasionally to play games. After I select Windows in the boot menu, I'd spend like ten minutes waiting for Windows Update to complete. Then I have to click through a series of full screen ads and prompts to disable my privacy settings, which is getting increasingly difficult with all the dark patterns thrown in after every new release. It really shows a lack of respect for the user, taking my computer hostage while I resist their attempts to enable numerous privacy-invading settings that I declined over and over and over. Over the years, this made me distrust Windows so much that I removed anything critical off of it. I removed my password manager, deleted my browsing data, and made sure to remove anything tied to an online account except Steam. Then I finally had enough and moved my games over to Linux. So far, the experience is good and I'm glad that WINE is going through active improvements.
- nicbou 4y agoI also use Windows occasionally to launch a single game. My experience is the same as yours. All sorts of nags that have nothing to do with launching a single game. Every update either breaks stuff, changes settings, or adds ads somewhere. I return to my main Mac after 2 months on the road, and nothing has changed. It boots right up, and might occasionally ask me if I want to install updates in the evening. I bought another Mac recently. I didn't have to turn a bunch of things off. I wasn't tricked into accepting anything. By comparison it took me a whole day to update my Surface tablet and turn off all manners of growth hacking before I returned it. If someone behaved like Microsoft does, I'd keep an eye on my drink when they're around.
- Haga 4y ago[dead]
- max51 4y agoIn my limited experience with VMs, I have found that it's easier to skip it if you disconnect your internet before booting windows. It doesn't remove it completely, but it can save a few clicks. The page where they try to force you to connect a Windows account can be very hard to bypass sometimes with internet access.
- howard941 4y agoThis also happens to a machine that's left on overnight. Something Happens and it reboots - I lose my RDP connection - to this awful dialog.
- Arrath 4y agoWhat grinds my gears is the scheduled waking from sleep to check for updates. And then it often doesn't go back to sleep afterwards for some reason. Oh! And if you go into the task scheduler to hunt down the half dozen different places this function is called from, they just get turned back on with the next update.
- lunatesi 4y agoI actually set up a scheduled task that runs every 5 minutes (maybe overkill, but I didn't know with what frequency they get reenabled) to make sure any task that can wake my computer from sleep is turned off. I got so tired of Windows turning on my computer in the middle of the night, checking for updates (but never actually applying any) to apply updates, and then leaving it on all night afterwards, like WTF.
- Arrath 4y agoNow there's an idea!
- IG_Semmelweiss 4y agowindows update blocker did the trick for me. Updater is finally disabled for good
- layer8 4y agoReboot Blocker solves this.
- MikusR 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patch_Tuesday https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patch_Tuesday been a thing for 20 years.
- damnesian 4y agoPerhaps require acknowledging an ad to open or save a document? With full OS integration and demonstrated willingness to expose any user to advertising, the possibilities are numerous.
- masswerk 4y agoEarn key strokes by ad-clicks…
- midoridensha 4y agoThey should require users to watch several ads, and then pass a quiz asking about things in the ads, before saving a document.
- cm2187 4y agoTo their defense, if even Apple gets away with it...
- belter 4y agoWhy stop there? Maybe the next version of Teams, will have commercial breaks during your daily stand-up? ... Microsoft is making 2023 the year of the Linux Desktop. :-)
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- MomoXenosaga 4y agoNever seen this. May I recommend win aero tweaker?
- Osiris 4y agoI’ve literally never seen this on any of the Windows machines in my household.
- saturn5k 4y agoThis only happens when Windows has a major updaye, usually overnight if you leave your PC on. On the next startup you're always greeted with a full screen overview of new features, setup, etc.
- IG_Semmelweiss 4y agoanother poster told be about windows update blocker. Now i don't have to be afraid to go to sleep at night...
- xattt 4y agoI had this and I could either summon Task Manager through Ctrl-Shift-Esc or Alt-Tab out of it.
- MarkSweep 4y agoSearch settings for “finish setting up” and uncheck. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-10/why-am-i-getting-this-quot-let-s-finish-setting-up-your-device/td-p/1751604 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-10/why-am-i-g... This kinda of user-hostile malware is very frustrating, as many of platforms Microsoft creates I find quite pleasent technically. However some small hoard of product managers and growth engineers chasing their metrics are ruining Windows.
- adithyassekhar 4y agoIn Settings>System>Notifications> go to the bottom and expand the last row. In it there's an option to Show you ways to improve something something. Uncheck that.
- rkagerer 4y agoAnd yet HN still gives me grief for my deliberate choice not to 'upgrade' Windows 7.