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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 18:30:51 JST nixCraft 🐧

   Microsoft says it’s starting to test ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11. The software maker will use the Recommended section of the Start menu, which usually shows file recommendations, to suggest apps from the Microsoft Store. Trillion dollar corporation is so poor. They need more money by selling your data to the highest bidder. wtf? #privacy #security https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/12/24128640/microsoft-windows-11-start-menu-ads-app-recommendations

   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 18:36:30 JST nixCraft 🐧

     • Asheville Charlie

     @avlcharlie that is the sad part. people paying 100 dollars or more yet your data sold to advertisers and training their shity LLM. So in a way you are correct

   • Freevolt (freevolt24@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 18:53:25 JST Freevolt

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     @nixCraft Average users would be so surprised how other OSes can do the great majority of tasks that they might think they could only do on Windows.

   • Zugmuth das zornige Zebra (zetthochdrei@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 18:54:50 JST Zugmuth das zornige Zebra

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     @nixCraft It already started years ago when Microsoft was so poor, they had to sell advertisements in Minesweeper and Solitaire.

   • 🇵🇸 Álvaro González (kalvaro@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 18:56:33 JST 🇵🇸 Álvaro González

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     @nixCraft Remember: Windows is paid software, and not super cheap; I paid 100€ for my Windows 10 licence. The only thing that really sticks me to this OS is gaming, and Steam is being rather successful at fixing that. I'm not renewing my PC any time soon. When I do, I'll have to seriously consider what my money pays for.

   • MegatronicThronBanks (megatronicthronbanks@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 19:24:17 JST MegatronicThronBanks

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     @nixCraft So we'll fix that.

   • PictoPulse356 (pictopulse356@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 21:02:04 JST PictoPulse356

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     @nixCraft Always can earn one more dollar

   • Egee (egeexyz@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Apr-2024 01:44:03 JST Egee

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     @nixCraft Honestly if I was a big shareholder, I'd be PISSED about this.

     If it was really this easy all along, there's been money just sitting on the table and nobody thought to reach into it until now.

     I'm unsurprised by this development but serious about the shareholder thing. Like why did they wait until now to put adds in the start menu?

   • LiquidCrystalDude (liquidcrystaldude@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Apr-2024 04:52:45 JST LiquidCrystalDude

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     @nixCraft
     microsoft is trying so hard to make people hate them 🔥

   • Dom (dominicdeligann@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Apr-2024 06:35:51 JST Dom

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     @nixCraft thats just disgusting. people pay 140 bucks for this?