Microsoft wants to add ads to their Windows operating system. The greed just never ends.
This is the worst idea since Samsung forced ads upon users who had the misfortune of buying their TVs.
This is wrong mainly because we consumers payed for the product, we own it, it is NOT their ad space.
If politicians do not regulate this, we will end up in world where our homes are full of devices shouting at us, "Buy, buy, buy!"
May the wrath of the EU strike them down.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/12/24128640/microsoft-windows-11-start-menu-ads-app-recommendations
Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu
The first ads in the Windows 11 Start menu will be very similar to the app recommendations Microsoft used in Windows 10.Tom Warren (The Verge)
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in reply to Randahl Fink • • •I also highly recommend Linux (as several others do). I'm always shocked how unprofessional it looks when colleagues open the default browser on Microsoft full with advertisements and irrelevant news. That looks so unprofessional and is so distracting.
And it makes so clear that you are the product they are mining.
I personally use #Fedora Linux (with the #GNOME desktop), extremely easy to use and very clean.
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in reply to Randahl Fink • • •I recall some Philip K Dick books, where products would shout at you from the supermarket shelves, and cybernetic ads the size of insects would fly into your car and tell you to use a new brand of deodorant...
Why the **** did we end up in his world, instead of Star trek?!?!