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Microsoft is testing Game Pass ads on the Windows 11 Settings homepage (www.ghacks.net)

submitted 5 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Microsoft's announcement: "We are introducing a new Game Pass recommendation card on the Settings homepage. The Game Pass recommendation card on Settings Homepage will be shown to you if you actively play games on your PC. As a reminder – the Settings homepage will be shown only on the Home and Pro editions of Windows 11 and if you’re signed into Windows with your Microsoft account."

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[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

entire home tab is just ad space and can be disabled
or just upgrade to enterprise, comes with no ms 365 ads and the home tab is disabled out of the box.
you'll get literally zero ads or bs like onedrive in built-in apps, and even anti features like ms account login can be disabled (os will just skip right to local account creation)

[–] cheet@infosec.pub 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

if you're in the know, check out vlmcsd on github and "test" windows enterprise with KMS. It can run on everything from a pi, to docker, to openwrt. If you're really gangster, you can set up SRV records and get auto activation on your lan

[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

massgrave can activate enterprise by hwid

[–] cheet@infosec.pub 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh I'll have to check that out I thought I read something about that method being patched.

Tho I do like just booting a new install and its already activated automatically :P

[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

it got patched but they fixed/worked around it.
successfully activated my enterprise install by hwid in 2023