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Microsoft is not done yet: more ads spotted in latest Windows 11 build - gHacks Tech News (www.ghacks.net)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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When is an ad an advertisement and not a recommendation? Microsoft clearly likes to use the term recommendation for what others may see as an advertisement.

There are recommendations in the Start menu, Settings app, Lock screen, File Explorer, Get Help app, and other areas of the operating system already. These are often not that useful. App recommendations in the Start menu are limited to Microsoft Store apps.

Now, Microsoft is testing recommendations in the Microsoft Store app. If you never use the app, you won't be exposed to these. If you do, you may notice recommendations popping up when you try to use the built-in search.

First spotted by phantomofearth on X, two or three recommendations are shown whenever search is activated in the official Microsoft Store app.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm surprised they didn't put ads in the blank area of the taskbar.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Or on the entire desktop. Ad wallpapers when?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (6 children)

I have used Windows 10 for years and recently switched to Windows 11 and I don't think I've ever seen an ad in my day to day OS use. I don't do the registry edits or turn off the telemetry stuff, either. I don't know what I'm doing differently but I'm not seeing these ads that apparently infected Windows.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Most of these reports are about preview builds of Windows.

That said, surely you have seen recommendations from Microsoft to try their Office package and such oil up. It's like that, but more intrusive.

I can't believe Microsoft is making me switch from Windows to Mac and Linux, but here we are.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

While I hate ads as much as the next person, I'm having trouble getting outraged by ads in an app store. "Recommendations" are kinda par for that course. Sure, it would be nice if those "recommendations" actually reflected stuff I was interested in and not just who paid Microsoft the most for ad placement. But, I also aggressively turn off telemetry (and actually don't use Windows at home). So, it's not like I expect useful recommendations anyway.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Microsoft:

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I already run Linux on my laptop. The one thing keeping me from getting rid of Windows on my big machine is Forza games. Motorsport does not seem to work at all with proton/wine (yet)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I’m just riding win10 until I finally nab a new gpu and 5700x3d. Htpc and media server are running mint, I think I’ll change the server distro next time I upgrade the hardware though

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Listen, bill gates just needs to buy more arable land. This, of course, is your capital to earn by being good and not using linux or Firefox to banish these innocent little ads.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Gates could never make another cent and it wouldn't matter to him in regards to purchasing power.

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