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Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Google (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No different than Chrome.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're talking windows in general

This goes for both chrome and bing: If a service is free, you are the product.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If a service is free, you are the product.

Linux?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You are the tester lol

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True for Windows as well. Ever upgraded to a new version before the first SP? Linux just gets upgrades a lot faster than Windows (and I mean the conservative distros like Debian. Bleeding-edge distros are on a completely other level).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Don't even need to upgrade, you get to test monthly if you're not brave enough to hang a month behind.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Microsoft have been known to ship a product with thousands of known bugs on its release date. In the networking space (Windows NT), there were Technet CDs that were released to fix all manner of known bugs just so the corporates wouldn't have to wait for a Service Pack

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Perhaps a better statement would be, if a for profit service is free, you are the product. Obviously it's possible for someone to make free stuff if they want to, but if someone is making money from you using something, but you aren't paying them, then they're making that money by selling someone else access to you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Linux is just an advertisement to contribute to open source