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Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone (www.theverge.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Microsoft is starting to enable ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11 for all users. After testing these briefly with Windows Insiders earlier this month, Microsoft has started to distribute update KB5036980 to Windows 11 users this week, which includes “recommendations” for apps from the Microsoft Store in the Start menu.

Luckily you can disable these ads, or “recommendations” as Microsoft calls them. If you’ve installed the latest KB5036980 update then head into Settings > Personalization > Start and turn off the toggle for “Show recommendations for tips, app promotions, and more.” While KB5036980 is optional right now, Microsoft will push this to all Windows 11 machines in the coming weeks.

Microsoft’s move to enable ads in the Windows 11 Start menu follows similar promotional spots in the Windows 10 lock screen and Start menu. Microsoft also started testing ads inside the File Explorer of Windows 11 last year before disabling the experiment and saying the test was “not intended to be published externally.” Hopefully that experiment remains very much an experiment.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Thank god I use linux

[+] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

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

Yup, though I don't think I could've switched earlier. I switched my first year of college when I rented a computer, and then used it ever since. My parents certainly wouldn't let me change the family computer, but I did have my own computer as a teen that I installed FreeBSD on (some guy at the local community college gave me a disk).

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

The only regret i have is that i haven’t switched earlier.

Seems like everyone who successfully switches, has this regret.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (4 children)

So what you're saying is we need adverts in the console?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Ubuntu is calling

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

you can implement that yourself RIGHT NOW! just stuff a little single liner at the end of your .bashrc, it'll be run everytime you open it ez pz.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Technically Ubuntu did that. Buuuut it was one line of text advertising that you can get ultra-long term software support on up to 5 PCs for free.

To my knowledge it also only showed it once.

So a lot more forgivable than MS's bullshit.

That said, I still avoid Ubuntu for other reasons.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

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