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Microsoft is not done yet: more ads spotted in latest Windows 11 build - gHacks Tech News (www.ghacks.net)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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When is an ad an advertisement and not a recommendation? Microsoft clearly likes to use the term recommendation for what others may see as an advertisement.

There are recommendations in the Start menu, Settings app, Lock screen, File Explorer, Get Help app, and other areas of the operating system already. These are often not that useful. App recommendations in the Start menu are limited to Microsoft Store apps.

Now, Microsoft is testing recommendations in the Microsoft Store app. If you never use the app, you won't be exposed to these. If you do, you may notice recommendations popping up when you try to use the built-in search.

First spotted by phantomofearth on X, two or three recommendations are shown whenever search is activated in the official Microsoft Store app.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Microsoft:

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The ads are in the app store. I don't really understand why that's a problem. Although I'm probably the only tool out there that actually likes Windows 11.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

lol yep you probably are

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Self aware idiot.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

That's unfortunate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

MS 2 decades late to Google's ad game.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

i can't believe they wrote an entire article to whine about ads IN A STORE APP

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Gotta keep that rage up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Microsoft seem determined to make us hate using Windows 11, which was all that hard to begin with. If Macs weren't so expensive, and Linux such a pain in the ass, I'd happily switch.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I don't know about Linux being a pain in the ass. My kid was using first Linux on a laptop and then mac, and he wanted to go back to Linux where things make sense. He felt the mac was really confusing in where the files were. He also loved the integrated Software app where he can point and click install everything.

Now he is learning the terminal... :)

I think there is plenty of people who think macs are a pain in the ass too. Depends on what you are used to.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

I kind of expect ads in an app store, but I also don't use the ms app store.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Listen, bill gates just needs to buy more arable land. This, of course, is your capital to earn by being good and not using linux or Firefox to banish these innocent little ads.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Gates could never make another cent and it wouldn't matter to him in regards to purchasing power.

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