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Guys, we are allowed to disable the ads now. We might have been too harsh on microsoft after all.
...insanity, I tell you. Ads, in your face, right in the Start Menu, on your computer that you bought, on your OS that you bought.
Note that it doesn't disable ads. It just means the ads a user sees will be less relevant to the user based on their browsing history and consumer profiles.
Yup was gonna say the same thing.
They can be removed with third party tools but they shouldn't be there in the first place.
I already thought it was pretty bad but that is somehow even worse. Par for the course I suppose
I switched to linux and i dual boot pop os windows now. I only use windows to configure things that has no linux support. Or when a game doesn't work right after an update. Windows is truly bizzare if you haven't used it for a bit. Like every time i clicked on the windows key, or sometimes, seemingly randomly when i opened a new windows, it opened the xbox game launcher, or whatever it's called. I never installed it obviously. I couldn't really find it, because i uninstalled everything that had the name xbox in it.i "had" to watch a video on how to disable something that i didn't install and didn't want in the first place.
They will shove ads into our faces at every possible opportunity. Ads work, they effectively brainwash you, the more you see, the better they do.
And everywhere you go there's prompts and alerts to upgrade your OneDrive storage or subscribe to Xbox game pass.
Don't even get me started on the experience on handhelds. Microsoft's attempts so far at the Xbox Full Screen experience convinces me they will never get it right.