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People need to get over the in OS ads. They’re easily removable honestly. Personally I’ve never seen windows look this good in years. The whole system shell loo
by zer0zzz 2y ago
People need to get over the in OS ads. They’re easily removable honestly. Personally I’ve never seen windows look this good in years. The whole system shell looks really good and well designed these days. On top of that the included features like wsl2 and hyperv are great.
- Dalewyn 2y agoI disagree that we should just "get over" ads, I fucking paid cold hard cash for a Windows license after all. It's either ads with a free license, or no ads with a license bought and paid for. No fucking double dipping. That said, most if not all the nonsense can easily be disabled or removed so I agree with your overall position.
- 2Gkashmiri 2y agoBut Microsoft is subsidising cost of the immense infra and development cost by showing you ads in excahnge for a cheaper license.
- jijji 2y agoI hope that was sarcasm
- 2Gkashmiri 2y agoI don't know for Microsoft but xiaomi has been saying this https://www.androidauthority.com/xiaomi-ads-business-966584/ https://www.androidauthority.com/xiaomi-ads-business-966584/ >This advertisement business is what allows Xiaomi to subsidize and offset the cost of the hardware and reach those astonishingly low price points. So it wont be surprising if Microsoft says the same
- ric2b 2y agoMicrosoft doesn't have astronomically low price points.
- Dalewyn 2y agoI'm paying around $200 bucks for a Windows 11 Pro license, you bet your ass I am not expecting ads after paying two motherfucking Franklins.
- zer0zzz 2y agoWhy? I’ve found practically any license key from any old pc as far back as win7 will enable win11 pro. Am I missing something here? Did you actually buy a $200 win11 license? If so yeah that's a pretty fair complaint.
- zer0zzz 2y agoWhile my rhetoric was overly dismissive of people’s gripes, I do agree completely with your sentiment.
- bediger4000 2y agoThis is the road to hell. We all know that advertising eventually corrupts the advertising platform. It happened with radio, broadcast TV, cable TV and the web. You'll be very sorry in a very short time if you put up with ads in an OS you paid for, on hardware you paid for. You're letting Microsoft externalize some of the cost of advertising to you.
- zer0zzz 2y agoApple is no different other than the fact they are slow walking it.
- bediger4000 2y agoAnd so? The context is Windows and Microsoft. I, personally, am a Linux user. The warning about advertising is still true.
- zer0zzz 2y agoPoint is all commercial desktop systems have already fallen for it.
- Tao3300 2y agoAnd you need to get bent. Pardon my French, but someone had to say it and you needed to hear it.
- zer0zzz 2y agoI wonder when the HN police are gonna show up to tell you you’re violating site policy. Any day now. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- zer0zzz 2y agoI still maintain, despite the gross ads this release of windows is one of the best. I was much more bothered by past versions.
- jijji 2y agoit's really not the ads that upset me, it's the remotely exploitable vulnerabilities that take Microsoft 3 years to fix that's kind of where I have a problem. I stopped using Microsoft products in like 1991 man sorry
- zer0zzz 2y agoI totally agree here. My point was more that I am more happy with the improvements to windows than I am annoyed with ads I can easily disable.