I’ve never seen a single ad in windows. I keep hearing they are coming… But so far it’s just a few predatory practices failing to convince me to use their stupid browser.
I honestly have no idea what you’re talking about… what ads are you seeing? Where are they?
The only “ads” I see for windows come after updates in the form of “Would you like to use our “new” “EDGE” Browser?!” To which the options are “YES I WOULD FUCK YEAH” (size 40 font) and “no thanks” (size 8 font). I hate that, but it’s only happened once or twice so far.
What’s your secret? One quick way to see ads is to click on the weather in the bottom right corner. I have done all of these things but, like the commenters in that link have mentioned, none of them work.
I’m sure you have the options disabled that show this kind of stuff but it doesn’t mean it’s not there. Anyone who is not tech savvy (99% of the population) will have no clue how to turn this stuff off or that it’s even an option.
I guarantee any PC sold by any big box store or on Amazon will come with this stuff enabled by default.
I’ve never had that, though… not on my Windows machines (plural). Did you buy your machine from a manufacturer like HP? It just feels like something HP would do… never buy HP anything, everyone (even if this specific event isn’t their fault).
Edit: This isn’t your image… it’s from Reddit and it’s from SIX years ago.
That sounds horrible… I’ve never seen these, though. I don’t use anything special so far as I know. I’m on Windows 10 on one computer I run all day, and Windows 11 for the one I use all evening.
Assuming you’re not making this up, could Microsoft be rolling these out only to specific individuals for a trial run, or something? I don’t even have Windows Pro…
Or… actually… I built my computers from the ground up. Did you buy yours from HP, Dell, or another manufacturer? Could THEY be putting ads into their updates somehow?
I’ve never seen a single ad in windows. I keep hearing they are coming… But so far it’s just a few predatory practices failing to convince me to use their stupid browser.
Same,this starts to look like paranoia imo.
I think it’s just Linux people trying to poison the well. I’m not even mad, haha.
But like, I’m not joining the lie, either. Some day it could happen, though, and on that day sign me up for a pitchfork.
If you’ve managed to disable all ads on windows please share your setup and how you’ve managed that.
I honestly have no idea what you’re talking about… what ads are you seeing? Where are they?
The only “ads” I see for windows come after updates in the form of “Would you like to use our “new” “EDGE” Browser?!” To which the options are “YES I WOULD FUCK YEAH” (size 40 font) and “no thanks” (size 8 font). I hate that, but it’s only happened once or twice so far.
What about the ads in the start menu? For candy crush or tiktok
I’ve never seen these before… can you share a screenshot? That sounds fucking awful!
What’s your secret? One quick way to see ads is to click on the weather in the bottom right corner. I have done all of these things but, like the commenters in that link have mentioned, none of them work.
You can just right click on the task bar and turn that feature off… I’ve done it in close to 1000 Windows machines at this point.
Windows updates bring it back. I’ve done it again for now. But as you have comfirmed, there are ads in windows 10.
If you open up the app store, there are ads… Pretty sure Apple has some integrated “news and interests” equivalent feature that also serves ads.
Also, my windows update has not turned the news and interests back on. Maybe you’re doing something wrong?
Which they’ve only been doing for… checks watch…30 years.
Have you ever opened the start menu? There are ads there.
I just did and I have no idea what you’re talking about. All I see are my pinned apps and recently used files.
I’m sure you have the options disabled that show this kind of stuff but it doesn’t mean it’s not there. Anyone who is not tech savvy (99% of the population) will have no clue how to turn this stuff off or that it’s even an option.
I guarantee any PC sold by any big box store or on Amazon will come with this stuff enabled by default.
haha WHOA, that SUCKS.
I’ve never had that, though… not on my Windows machines (plural). Did you buy your machine from a manufacturer like HP? It just feels like something HP would do… never buy HP anything, everyone (even if this specific event isn’t their fault).
Edit: This isn’t your image… it’s from Reddit and it’s from SIX years ago.
That sounds horrible… I’ve never seen these, though. I don’t use anything special so far as I know. I’m on Windows 10 on one computer I run all day, and Windows 11 for the one I use all evening.
Assuming you’re not making this up, could Microsoft be rolling these out only to specific individuals for a trial run, or something? I don’t even have Windows Pro…
Or… actually… I built my computers from the ground up. Did you buy yours from HP, Dell, or another manufacturer? Could THEY be putting ads into their updates somehow?