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Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu (www.theverge.com)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The software maker will use the Recommended section of the Start menu, which usually shows file recommendations, to suggest apps from the Microsoft Store.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

All android phone

Not Fairphones. Fairphones are ad-free, bloatware-free and privacy-focused.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

FP4 user here. while that is true, any android ROM with google services on it isn't privacy-focused.

but i don't want to miss out on clash of clans, so here i am using their bullshit spyware.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Their mission is amazing but I'm not going to sit here and pretend any Google-laden Android isn't also ad-laden.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

The Murena Fairphones in the U.S. are de-googled. They have replacements for pretty much everything, including email. You can import your google contacts. You can import your google calendar into the de-googled calendar and access it from app or web just like the google version. The only google stuff on my fairphone is what I put on it myself. And I can still download and run every app on the google play store if I choose.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Murena Fairphone

That's awesome, never heard of this! I was referring to the stock Fairphones, which are absolutely Google-filled. But if someone is reselling them with all that crap stripped then that project is for sure worthy of recognition.