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literally the first thing i see after booting is game pass ads on my lock screen. i'm getting ads before i've even logged in. on a paid copy of 10 pro no fucking less.
"i turned off the lock screen" cool so every time i start my computer i'll simply disable another windows feature because microsoft decided it needed to have ads or bing or copilot bolted onto it now. got it 👍
turned off anything but the jpg for lock screen. that shits for business majors.
i mostly just skip it... they're small enough so i don't really pay attention to them. i like it when they give cool facts about whatever picture shows up on the lock screen though, it makes it worth it for me....
Same honestly. If only so I know what search terms to use because I want that photo as my wallpaper now
I use Windows Entreprise (Education actually but it’s the same thing I got the license with school) so I don’t get ads and some of that kind of shit
I forget they exist until I accidentally click on them tbh. It's so ineffective at being an advertisement that I only remember it's there when it's inconveniencing me. If I vaguely like the picture I search it after I log on so I don't have to see it with the ad overlay
I have never seen this, and I work at a uni with 'in the wild' copies of windows.
Like this is definitely bad, but I can tell you why I don't have a problem with it: I've never seen it
I think there is a class of system administrator that knows how to turn this kind of thing off at the network level and universities and the like have lucked in to keeping them around - for now
I never saw it on my work computer either until last night so you may be in for a surprise in the near future
Or maybe they just forgot about Australia
I'm told the trick is to set the computer to English (World). This apparently turns the ads off.
That's not even the lock screen itself, that's the Bing Picture Of The Day thing ("Windows spotlight" / "Fun Facts And Tips" according to settings).
Never seen it try to sell me anything though.
What can I say, linux terrifies me (and I use a lot of windows only software)
don't have a choice in this bitch of a world, all the software i work with doesn't have Linux versions, MacOS is prohibitively expensive and an entirely new ecosystem to me and I lack the computer prowess to do any of the difficult stuff that either lets me use MacOS on any other device or lets me get rid of the ads.
the very first thing i see when i wake up is ads pervading every square inch of my entire world. i ain't pretend i can opt out of what i can't opt out of. the evil machine won. if i could just go "nah, actually it didn't" then we wouldn't be so mad all the time
eventually you will have turned off so many things that your operating system will be a beautiful, perfect spindle
