GossiTheDog,
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Good news everybody, companies can now place adverts in your Start Menu that lead to executable code. https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/24/24138949/microsoft-windows-11-start-menu-ads-recommendations-setting-disable

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  • 0x3e4,
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    WhyNotZoidberg,
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    @GossiTheDog I can never decide if devs these days are naive tech bros (of any gender) that still believe in the rose colored myths of the future of the Web from the 90s, or exceptionally cynical assholes who deliberately ruin the internet and tech for decades forward for a quick buck.

    Maybe it's both.

    ultrasquid,
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    @GossiTheDog the day the Nvidia wayland fix is released, I'm wiping my Windows drive.

    fell,
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    @ultrasquid @GossiTheDog I have heard it's planned for 22nd of May or something like that

    rektdeckard,
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    @GossiTheDog I'm as anti-microshit as the next guy, but "adverts that lead to executable code" sounds like the ads execute code when clicked. They're just regular ads. And every app store has problems with malicious software.

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  • rektdeckard,
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    @GossiTheDog Where else would they go? Ads lead to the place where you can buy the thing.

    Not defending. Its a terrible feature that I will disable as soon as possible. But the bait headline made it seem like they were much more than ads.

    scottytrees,
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    0x3e4,
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    @GossiTheDog not sure if meme or real life

    chipswithfries,

    @GossiTheDog lucky for me, i've protected myself by blocking all updates.

    TritTriton,
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    @chipswithfries @GossiTheDog You can disable the “recommendations” in the Settings app, but they are spread in multiple locations, there.

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