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Windows Copilot's is showing third-party Ads to Windows users (www.ghacks.net)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] jay9 74 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Geez, ads baked into an OS. What a time to be alive.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The ads have been baked in for a while. Every time I turn on my PC, the first thing I see is it trying to get me to buy Game Pass, and when Starfield came out, it was putting pictures from the game on that startup screen. Even after I tried to turn that off, it still showed them.

[–] kautau 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah windows has been an ad delivery platform since windows 11 came out. It’s why it was a “free” upgrade for so many people

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you mean to say Windows 10?

Ads have been served in Home edition since 10 was dropped with 1507. And they strip group policy from it to make it harder to change that. Windows Vista to Windows 8.1 were offered free upgrades to Windows 10, based on the version those keys belonged to.

I'm right now testing Windows 11 deployment for work and I hate it. I'll move to Linux before I move to Windows 11 on my personal devices.

[–] kautau 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean yeah, whenever the specific changes were put in place as you outlined. I don’t use windows enough to know the history, but I appreciate the clarification

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

No problem. I don't apply my experiences to others' lives, or at least I try not to. Thanks for taking along the lines I was trying to convey!

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

In windows 11 or 10?

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

Windows 11.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Right? You bought the OS but you still get ads. Even worse, it sends your data to MS servers