Have to use Windows for work (I’ve asked), the ads have been getting worse and worse on my work laptop. Today got a game ad notification… That’s clearly too far, right? Like I have to clear notifications, so I have to see it
Im sure people do see these ads, and its definitely starting to go a bit far, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how. Ive never seen anything like this using multiple personal and work windows machines for ~10+ hours a day, every day.
Work makes sense, I believe its a couple of GPOs, but even at home when I boot a fresh image I tick like 3 boxes and just never see any ads.
The only situation I can think of is prebuilt machines and laptops with preloaded configurations that people dont bother to change, but even then im pretty sure 5 minutes in settings will sort it out.
It might as well be. It’s a Windows app made by Microsoft specifically for Windows and comes preinstalled. IIRC, you can’t even fully uninstall the xbox bits without powershell or regedit.
Only the shortcut to the app was preinstalled on the build I put together a couple of months ago. When I tried to open it, it had to download and install first. Also, if you press Win+G to open the Game Bar and click the settings gear, under Notifications you can select “Hide notifications when I’m playing a fullscreen game”. Edit: or just turn off the Xbox app notifications if you don’t use it
This is the way. Do it on your phones, tablets, computers, etc., then set reminder on your to do list to check important apps once a week. My personal email can be checked one day a week and my work email when I come in, lunch, and before I leave. I don’t need a popup on my phone, watch, Alexa, car, and toaster every time amazon wants me to share my experience with a product. Notifications murder my ability to focus.
Almost as infuriating as ads coming over the Life Alert system.
You know those ads with the old lady like “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!”. Little radio thing you wear around your neck to act as emergency channel to contact someone if you’re stuck somewhere.
Well, somebody decided old people with a comm device around their neck would make a great marketing segment for targeted ads. Through the fucking safety device.
I don’t get these on my Windows PCs. But I did turn off a few settings, installed Open Shell for the Win7 style start menu, and Explorer Patcher to fix Win11’s stupid task bar changes.
Well, ever since Win8 or Win10 I stopped having much sympathy with Windows users. They deserve things like that, when they still remain on that ship. Since these things are being introduced in small portions (salami tactics), the users will slowly become familiar with these things and just accept them because they can’t change anything anyway, thus slowly incorporating a defeatist’s attitude towards all the bloat, ads and spying. AKA, learned helplessness. In a couple of years, Windows will be absolutely horrible, but people will be used to it. I’ll just say this: Windows used to NOT have this kind of crap integrated.
That is a very childish thing to say. Windows has A LOT of problems. But it easy to use. Linux is still a tehnical operating system. And not everyone has the time or the know how to use it. And I use both. Plus, the majority of laptops and pcs come with windows, and installing Linux is not that simple. It will be at least 10 years before it becomes a somewhat widely used OS, with the younger generations being more used to tehnology in general.
One can directly install ubuntu on hyper-v, without any additional 3rd party tools. They just need hyper-v enabled (it’s installed by default). It’s not user friendly, it’s the usual gui mess as one could expect from a ms product. But at least it’s preinstalled, which is convenient for a work laptop.
Whether IT security department would allow this… It’s another story
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