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Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising (www.techradar.com)
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Windows 11 is getting out of hand with its push for advertisments, frankly - remember the recent full-screen pop-up to persuade users to install Edge or other Microsoft services? Then another advertisment was placed in the Start menu, and now Microsoft has finally worn my temper thin - with a new Game Pass ad coming to the Settings app.

This will likely arrive in the July update for Windows 11, or at least it’s almost certain to do so. It was present in the latest preview update Microsoft just released for the OS (and quickly paused due to a bug, but that’s another story). It’s also worth noting that the ad has been present in earlier test versions of Windows 11.

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[–] Muscar@discuss.online 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've managed to de-google completely and mostly de-microsoft, but I use cloud streaming (shadow) for gaming and anything else that's more than my shitty laptop can't handle and there's no way to use Linux on the cloud part. Only thing I can't do anything about yet, and doubt that'll change anytime soon or at all.

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[–] dvdnet62@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know ExplorePatcher and Startallback can stop ads on Start menu. is there any viable solution for this Settings app ad?

[–] brb@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Windows 10 LTSC

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You will take it and you will like it.

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