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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] 32 points 4 months ago (18 children)

It is bullshit, and people will complain while continuing to use Windows so why should Microsoft care?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (14 children)

Lemmy folk forgetting that not every person cares enough to switch OSes.

If you ever work tech support even at a basic level, you'll see. It's not even boomers or genZ. I helped a grown ass human who was my age at 40yo how to install a Firefox extension.

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

Lemmy folk forgetting that not every person cares enough to switch OSes.

Right, so if they don't care they're not going to complain very much about it. If they are going to complain what are they going to do about it? If it's "just complain and nothing else" then Microsoft doesn't care.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So are you volunteering to install Linux on everyone's machines when they get a new computer? And answer their tech support questions when they inevitably need that one program?

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

I'm volunteering to install Linux on my machine instead of just bitching about Microsoft while continuing to use Windows.

I don't see how pointing out the reality of "if you're not going to stop using Windows then Microsoft doesn't care what you think" somehow makes me responsible for every computer in the world.

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