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Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base (www.tomshardware.com)
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Microsoft EVP Yusuf Mehdi said in a blog post last week that Windows powers over a billion active devices globally. This might sound like a healthy number, but according to ZDNET, the Microsoft annual report for 2022 said that more than 1.4 billion devices were running Windows 10 or 11. Given that these documents contain material information and have allegedly been pored over by the tech giant’s lawyers, we can safely assume that Windows’ user base has been quietly shrinking in the past three years, shedding around 400 million users.

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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Sad thing is I guarantee they'd keep a majority market share after doing this. Few people would even be aware, and fewer still actually give a shit about their privacy. As for ads on the desktop, that might push people away... but then again, I had to practically force uBlock Origin down my friends' throat after finding that they've had ads on YouTube for years and didn't really care.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    but then again, I had to practically force uBlock Origin down my friends' throat after finding that they've had ads on YouTube for years and didn't really care.

    This is insane to me. How people can use the internet with ads is just beyond me.

    And you wanna know the full hypocrisy? Google Chrome also comes with an Ad blocker, on by default. They block ads they don't deem good, but allow all ads from AdSense, of course.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This is insane to me. How people can use the internet with ads is just beyond me.

    My friend did have an adblock, but it was the one built into Brave (iirc) by default. I noticed they knew it was there and active, but didn't really think twice about any of the sites it didn't block ads on. I assume they just didn't know it was possible to block certain ads, never really crossing their mind that some adblockers are better than others. No, if theirs can't do it, no adblock can.

    I also think years and years of unskippable commercials on cable TV, and now even streaming services, has made people kinda numb to it.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This is the terrifying part. Ads have become so normal in everyday life that people see nothing wrong with wasting their life away being marketed to by corporations. How much of someone's life is wasted hearing their existence isn't good enough but if they'd only buy some product they could be happy?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    The Fifteen Million Merits episode of Black Mirror was supposed to be a warming.

    But instead it seems corporations used it as a guide, and people just accepted having ads bombarded into their skulls in exchange for content, instead of getting enraged by it.

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