This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Click bait avoided, a prerelease build of Windows suggests some kind of general advertising in the start menu beyond promoting ads.
The article also calls this a "leak." Is it really a leak if it's in the insider Windows build that Microsoft makes freely available to anyone who wants it?
It's datamining a hidden feature. I'd call that a leek.
No.
Sounds like we need to start developing ad-blockers based directly within the OS.
Those exist. Use dns based adblockers. You can pick from a variety of services already out there or run your own with pihole.
Yeah, though ... those don't always work and it is entirely possible to break them if they become overly "pesky" for the corporations.
I'm pretty sure you can turn these off with local group policy. And if you can, I'm sure someone will make a script to do it for you.
Personally, I set up AD for my own devices a long time ago, when I got pissed off about Windows 10 rebooting my PC while I'd stepped away to eat dinner and killing everything I had open. So I also use it to set group policy to turn off things like this. But this is far overkill for the average person.
I miss the xda of old, where shitty clickbait articles and ads didn't rule the front page.
It's really upsetting seeing the internet transform into this commercialized capitalistic thing that used to be fun.
Now I want to continue this by saying there are still communities and places that have kept true to the free and open internet and not all of it has been commercialized. And there are always fun and exciting projects happening, recently I've been looking at i2p, it's similar to Tor but designed to be self contained and not for browsing the open web instead something called eepsites similar to onion sites.
ActivityPub gives me hope for the future of the Internet. I was able to completely replace Reddit with Lemmy after the exodus last year. I never used Twitter, but Mastodon seems like an alternative that's gaining popularity.
The one that seems the hardest to replace is YouTube, since hosting and serving video is very expensive, and many creators have come to rely on monitization.
I'm not sure about I2P being an alternative to the clearnet. It helps prevent censorship, sure, but I don't see how it provides anything that you can't do on the clearnet already, other than anonymity. It's also much harder to set up than Tor for non-tech savvy people. Anyone can already host any website they want on the clearnet.
ActivityPub really does feel like the future, or at least the one I hope for, it's been very refreshing and exciting and it gives me much the same feeling as the internet did when I was new.
Video does require a lot of storage unfortunately, and of course it makes sense that creators want money for what they often do. The closest would be that each creator or group setup their own PeerTube, however that comes with cost and administrating, which is not something most would want to do.
I2P is definitely more complex. Unless I2P gets implemented on consumer routers I don't see it becoming really popular, and most things on the internet do not need truly need anonymity even with VPN companies that like to advertise otherwise.
Yeah, used to be my go-to website for flashing custom ROMs.
Wonder if there's an alternative nowadays, not counting Telegram or Discord channels.
xdaforums.com, looks like the original forum was split from the "news" website
I feel when the clickbait is this bad, sharing the article should come with a new title.
Cool. I switched to Linux and no longer care about Microsoft's BS. This continues to just reinforce that I made the correct decision.
It's honestly hard to find a reason not to switch anymore. I switched myself recently and once I get more comfortable with it, I am putting Linux on my kid's computer as well.
My kids have never used a Windows computer. Android and Linux are all they know.
Welcome!
I’ve been a linux user for maaaaany years but always dual booted to windows for gaming. Got a new pc recently and this time I ditched the windows partition. Gaming on linux has come a long way the last few years and will only get better. Feels good man.
It's great to see Linux getting better support for games. It still doesn't support many titles, but it's good to see progress.
Since Google is failing at Ads, my cousin Pedro is opening a brand new Taco and Ads shop! Need tacos and the knowledge of gods? Why not right? It's better than my uncle's engine, coffee, bananas and ads stand. Or my neighbor's "Ads apples and diapers are us".
It's open season on delivering ads. I only learned about my fictional cousin from the bottom of an almond milk carton. He was missing, now he's got ads for you.
"we respect your privacy, so please accept the cookies from our 1542 partners"
Someone mentioned while I was gaming yesterday and we were discussing Windows 11 and he said "just get an add blocker" and it blew my mind. Like why support a company that thinks "this" is the future? When there are alternatives.
clickbait?
Yes.
Not exactly? But spoiler: It's even more ads! This time as search results.
Ha, this click bait article won't snag me! I've been paying attention the past 4 years; there IS ALWAYS something worse on the horizon. Only a fool would suspect otherwise these days.
it's like I once read: the best advertisement for Linux, or any other system, is Windows
