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    Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our unshittified experience (sh.itjust.works)
    submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/linuxmemes
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    I can't believe a paid OS needs a tool like this. Here's a GUI tool called OFGB (Oh Frick Go Back) to remove all the ads in Windows 11. It's understandable if a free OS or app needs ad support, but this is just crazy github.com/xM4ddy/OFGB

    [Screenshot Of a GUI Tool To Removes Ads From Various Places Around Windows 11]

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    [–] [email protected] 143 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    I want to make a script for Linux that adds ads everywhere. It would be tricky with Wayland but not impossible. It could start by installing browser extensions.

    [–] T00l_shed 103 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    There is a special place in hell for you lol.

    [–] [email protected] 72 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    If they were fake ads like in GTA and Cyberpunk, it could be fun, provided you could turn them on and off anytime.

    [–] [email protected] 45 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

    I'll use the Google Ad platform

    From there I'll encrypt all your files and make you watch an ad per file to access your data

    [–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

    Uh sorry, this is a big file. Here's the second, unskippable ad.

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

    It has a 1 in 500 chance of serving you a 300 hour ad you cannot skip, and if you attempt to restart the system to get rid of it, it'll make a note of that and restart the ad from the beginning after the next reboot.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

    If you try it twice, it will delete the file you were about to access.

    [–] T00l_shed 1 points 7 months ago

    Super-hell now.

    [–] mossy_ 6 points 7 months ago

    Now I wish there was an advertising studio where, like, they specialized in shitty ads for real things. Like "I made a game on newgrounds, you WON'T LAST TEN SECONDS" but it's just a flappy birds clone or something

    [–] Delusional 34 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    And call the script "Windows"

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

    I was thinking more along the lines of "optimizer"

    [–] slazer2au 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    Na just throw ads into system logs. Or do what Ubuntu does and throw an advert every time you run apt upgrade.

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    Have you tried installing any packages from NPM recently?

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    9474733 packages are looking for funding

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

    I think that is the better case. That is just NPM aggregating the metadata. There are lots of packages that print their own ad.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

    Make it for Hannah Montana Linux plz!