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Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising (www.techradar.com)

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

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Windows 11 is getting out of hand with its push for advertisments, frankly - remember the recent full-screen pop-up to persuade users to install Edge or other Microsoft services? Then another advertisment was placed in the Start menu, and now Microsoft has finally worn my temper thin - with a new Game Pass ad coming to the Settings app.

This will likely arrive in the July update for Windows 11, or at least it’s almost certain to do so. It was present in the latest preview update Microsoft just released for the OS (and quickly paused due to a bug, but that’s another story). It’s also worth noting that the ad has been present in earlier test versions of Windows 11.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (6 children)

I think this community exists only to complain about Microsoft. Not sure I ever see anything else.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

That is patently false.

...Sometimes we also complain about Facebook or Tesla.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Wrong, this is the elon musk complaint forum. Always has been

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They do make it very hard to speak about anything else

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

Thing is, most of these complaints are serious non issues.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

You're being slowly boiled alive, frog friend

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

Yeah but it is mostly warranted.

I wish we Apple-bashed more. Fuck Apple.

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

Seems to me it's mostly complaining about Google.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I read the title and thought, "Oh is this another ad for Linux?"