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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 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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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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[–] Potatos_are_not_friends 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Lemmy: why aren't people using Linux? It's so easy

Also Lemmy: webp huh?

[–] anon_8675309 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

What’s webp and why should I care?

[–] Hackworth 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

WebP is a raster graphics file format developed by Google intended as a replacement for JPEG, PNG, and GIF file formats. It supports both lossy and lossless compression, as well as animation and alpha transparency. Google announced the WebP format in September 2010, and released the first stable version of its supporting library in April 2018.

The format has spotty support across applications and some vulnerabilities were discovered that required patch efforts last year. It's not clear why you should do anything.

[–] anon_8675309 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don’t want to help Google control yet another aspect of the internet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

What's there to control? It's a completely open format. No royalties, no control, nothing.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Google’s image format

It’s smaller than png which a company that shows images really likes because it’s cheaper so to force adoption they convert a bunch of images to .webp on google images

The problem is that 1. It hadn’t been adapted anywhere so people would have to convert it back to png to use 2. It is worse in every aspect to jxl files so Google has had to block the adaptation of jxl on the web as much as they can (jxl retains more quality and is half the size of webp)

Currently only webkit browsers support jxl out of the box. Firefox has had it in their nightly builds for years now but have never moved it into standard

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

If Google wants to push webp because it is smaller than previous formats, and jxl is even smaller than that, why would Google have an interst in blocking jxl?

Not saying Google did not or does not block jxl, just your chain of logic as to why they do that does not make sense to me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Because it’s not theirs

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

It doesn’t make sense which is why people believe Google has ulterior motives. I haven’t seen any real reason not to use jxl as the new format; but I also haven’t looked that far into it. ¯\(ツ)/¯

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

JXL is new (like 2 years old), webp is older (> 10 years). Adding support for a thing takes time and resources, which is lower priority when there are good-enough formats already supported.

At least that's my perspective as someone who interacts with product owners (i.e. the type of people deciding what features get prioritized).

[–] notanaltaccount 1 points 5 months ago

Foss users should start making jxl only websites just to fuck chrome users and google.

[–] anon_8675309 1 points 5 months ago

Why should I help Google saturate the internet with yet some else they control?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Because you can't just double click on an .exe file and choose switch now without many more questions etc.