Windows is becoming adware
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A recent update means that when I click Start and start typing, the entire start menu is immediately converted to a Bing homepage style thing full of stuff I literally have no interest in. American sports, American politics, Entertainment news. I'm trying to find the Visual Studio Installer. I'm working. I'm really, really not interested in what Bing thinks I care about because it's never close, nor will I ever give Bing enough info to make it close. It's none of its business. I don't understand this mentality. Ram-it-down-your-throat advertising is dead. I should know - I have a media company. And yet Microsoft seems to be going down a path designed to make the user experience worse for negligible gain.
cheers Chris Maunder
I use StarDock's Start-10 tool for my Windows 10 installations. No AdWare or anything like that. However, I don't know about Windows 11 since I haven't installed it yet. Nonetheless, I understand where you are coming from. I play a lot of Solitaire to cool my mind down from software development and to have to pay to get rid of the incessant ads is something I will not do.
Steve Naidamast Sr. Software Engineer Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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Windows is a toy. It has always been a toy. It was built by children (just look at the APIs!), who grew up to be assholes. - Owen -
Owen, why don't you tell us how you really feel.
cheers Chris Maunder
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I more or less have..... PI-Hole all the way for me, and if that's not enough, once a DNS goes through Pi-Hole, it gets passed through a custom Bind-9 instance which strips out anything Pi-Hole didn't catch, before handing off to my ISP's DNS. On my router (I run a custom PFSense install) I have port blocking set up, so that internal machines and apps running on them cannot attempt to bypass my DNS set-up with their own, and as a result I see practically NO advertising what so ever, nor do any of their trackers get through either. Even my next door neighbour was impressed, when she popped in a few weeks ago and asked if she could use my connection, because hers and gone off, and her ISP only had internet based help for that kind of thing, she couldn't believe how there was no ad's, no tracking on anything using my connection.
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I use StarDock's Start-10 tool for my Windows 10 installations. No AdWare or anything like that. However, I don't know about Windows 11 since I haven't installed it yet. Nonetheless, I understand where you are coming from. I play a lot of Solitaire to cool my mind down from software development and to have to pay to get rid of the incessant ads is something I will not do.
Steve Naidamast Sr. Software Engineer Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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A recent update means that when I click Start and start typing, the entire start menu is immediately converted to a Bing homepage style thing full of stuff I literally have no interest in. American sports, American politics, Entertainment news. I'm trying to find the Visual Studio Installer. I'm working. I'm really, really not interested in what Bing thinks I care about because it's never close, nor will I ever give Bing enough info to make it close. It's none of its business. I don't understand this mentality. Ram-it-down-your-throat advertising is dead. I should know - I have a media company. And yet Microsoft seems to be going down a path designed to make the user experience worse for negligible gain.
cheers Chris Maunder
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I can’t feel sorry for software savvy people bitchin about windows 10/11 adware. Any self respecting pro should really be running Server 2016 or 2019 (with periodic self activation) and not pay MS a cent for bloated junk like 10 or 11. These idiots (MS) even disabled their app store and edge browser on their own server os’s. Otherwise 2016 and 2019 are the best products they’ve ever produced and are amazing for dev. These puppies can be trimmed down to less than 950 overhead threads. w10 can’t come close.
Not sure how you can run Server 2016/2019 on a laptop. I know too much about the idiots at MS -- but for now, I'm stuck on Windows 10 (the reason I'm not upgrading to Win11 is that it's even worse when it comes to updates)
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A recent update means that when I click Start and start typing, the entire start menu is immediately converted to a Bing homepage style thing full of stuff I literally have no interest in. American sports, American politics, Entertainment news. I'm trying to find the Visual Studio Installer. I'm working. I'm really, really not interested in what Bing thinks I care about because it's never close, nor will I ever give Bing enough info to make it close. It's none of its business. I don't understand this mentality. Ram-it-down-your-throat advertising is dead. I should know - I have a media company. And yet Microsoft seems to be going down a path designed to make the user experience worse for negligible gain.
cheers Chris Maunder
You really think that because you exert a measurable influence in the Microsoft development ecosystem they're going to listen to you? Chris, I'm shocked I tell you, shocked. I didn't think you Aussies were that gullible.
Software Zen:
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You really think that because you exert a measurable influence in the Microsoft development ecosystem they're going to listen to you? Chris, I'm shocked I tell you, shocked. I didn't think you Aussies were that gullible.
Software Zen:
delete this;🤣
cheers Chris Maunder
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Not sure how you can run Server 2016/2019 on a laptop. I know too much about the idiots at MS -- but for now, I'm stuck on Windows 10 (the reason I'm not upgrading to Win11 is that it's even worse when it comes to updates)
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We'll see :-) It's not terribly difficult though.
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A recent update means that when I click Start and start typing, the entire start menu is immediately converted to a Bing homepage style thing full of stuff I literally have no interest in. American sports, American politics, Entertainment news. I'm trying to find the Visual Studio Installer. I'm working. I'm really, really not interested in what Bing thinks I care about because it's never close, nor will I ever give Bing enough info to make it close. It's none of its business. I don't understand this mentality. Ram-it-down-your-throat advertising is dead. I should know - I have a media company. And yet Microsoft seems to be going down a path designed to make the user experience worse for negligible gain.
cheers Chris Maunder
The more I hear and experience these things, the more I'm leaning toward Linux. Enough is enough already. Cheers, Johann