• wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I mean I’m cheering for Linux adoption too, but I’ve never received an ad beyond the initial install crapware app stubs. I do a sweep on the system settings, clean the junk, and I’m off to the races.

    For the unsuspecting users, the privacy concerns are quite bad though.

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        1 year ago

        I havent had that happen, either - between 6 machines I manage and about the same number of reinstalls over the years, from 10 rtm to present 22H2 (or whatever its up to now); I’ve heard the claim by many, but my evidence is nil.

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      1 year ago

      I keep seeing ads in my notifications on my windows installation for windows store items or bing.

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        1 year ago

        Out of curiosity, do you have a screenshot? Unless I have always been the B/control group in A/B testing or something, it sounds super weird.

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          1 year ago

          No, I only boot into windows when I game, so its been a couple days since I’ve gotten one of the notifications.

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            1 year ago

            That’s not the notification tray, though? I mean bleh but you have to go searching for that, and it is somewhat relevant given that most users are logged into their MS account, and this is the accounts settings page… am I missing something?

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      isn’t the windows search bar a giant always on ad for edge and Bing?

      also windows advertises a lot of their cloud/subscription services in notifications and settings to me

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        1 year ago

        I suppose - I always disable it as part of my initial setup steps, I have actually never used it.

        I’ve only seen shilling for 360 in the account panel, though. Never in the notification tray.