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Microsoft Is Spamming Windows 10 File Explorer With Ads For OneDrive Storage (digitaltrends.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Digital Trends: While Microsoft is addressing some other complaints about Windows 10 in the upcoming Creators Update -- such as privacy concerns over the data that's being transmitted and issues regarding how the operating system updates itself -- the company seems intent on retaining Windows 10's advertising functionality. In fact, it has apparently been adding OneDrive commercials to File Explorer, ExtremeTech reports. Basically, you might start seeing a new promotion for OneDrive when you're perusing your file structure in Windows 10. OneDrive is baked into Windows 10 and can't easily be uninstalled, and Microsoft wants to make sure you know that the 5GB of free OneDrive storage can be easily upgraded to significantly more space. Turning off the OneDrive advertising isn't without consequences. You can go to the View menu in File Explorer, then Options, and select "Change folder and search options." In the next window, select the View menu, then scroll down to and uncheck the "Show sync provider notifications" option. Note that while this should disable the OneDrive ads, it will also stop you from seeing potentially important notifications from OneDrive. The report notes that, while these OneDrive ads aren't new, "they seem to be showing up more often for more people."
The Facebook of operating systems!
So that's why it keeps popping up; I assumed I was accidentally clicking on the systray icon.
So my friends, which one of these should i look up, and suggest me Linux distros.
I'm gonna VM them to try them out and completely purge Windows 10 from my life.
with win10 home edition, is it even possible to stop this from happening at all? Some obscure registry hack somewhere?
I'm god, but it's a bit of a drag really...
How much longer will it be before we are denied access to applications we've paid for unless we sit through more fscking adverts?
We're already having to rent software. We are denied the first sales right to sell digital products - even in the EU were it is legal, and our OSes are having stealth updates and invariably breaking existing functionality, or reverses settings in anti-consumer direction.
Since all of Microsoft's cloud services are intrinsically backdoored by the Three Letter Agencies, you might as well just email all your documents directly to them.
"Note that while this should disable the OneDrive ads, it will also stop you from seeing potentially important notifications from OneDrive."
Who the hell uses OneDrive and why should anyone care about "potentially important notifications" from a spammer?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Ok, ok, I want to pay! Sell me a version of Windows 10 that doesn't suck!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Is this a free OS where the user is the product, or is it a "Pro" product where users pay nearly £200/$200, yet is exploited for additional revenue. Microsoft don't seem to know. Given the price of the product I don't want any commercial stuff in the core Windows shell. Promoted apps on the launcher, popups telling me Edge is faster than Chrome, and this, are not acceptable. The only place it's acceptable is in the Store.
Say what you want about Apple, but they would never do shit like this.
Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 21st century?
Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games... and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts, and bananas and written on the sky, and in Facebook and Windows 10 File Explorer. But not in dreams, no siree.
#DeleteFacebook
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If I turn off sync notifications, onedrive, which I don't use, will stop bugging me completely?
Chewbacon
The Bible is like Wikipedia: written by a bunch of people and verifiable by questionable sources.
Just use another cloud provider or NextCloud. Then you can disable notifications with 0 drawbacks.
"...Note that while this should disable the OneDrive ads, it will also stop you from seeing potentially important notifications from OneDrive.
Er, important notifications?
If I don't intend to use OneDrive at all, I'd love to know what the true impact is of disabling yet another advertising "feature".
With the amount of shit going on with this OS, I can already see a market for a dedicated corporate firewall appliance that updates its anti-telemetry ruleset about as often as an A/V signatures.
"potentially important notifications from OneDrive"
There ain't no such thing.
I had to uninstall one drive for multiple clients yesterday because every time they tried to open a local file they received 'the file is corrupt' due to issues with microsoft's cloud.
Just exiting wasn't a good enough solution to the problem.
When the addons break LOCAL functionality when there are issues with the cloud - that's just ridiculous.
It all depends on being able to connect to Bing. And if one blocks bing at the physical level oh well.
If they ever come out with Windows 10 Vacuum Edition, I'm sure it won't suck.
I saw the ad this morning and was confused. I already have Office 365 installed and I have 10 TB of storage (which they keep telling me they will restrict to just 1 TB but it hasn't happened yet). Why show me an ad for something that I already own? I'm using a Microsoft account and it's installed on this system... they have to know that I already have it but they just don't care. The only thing holding me to Windows at this point is Unity 3D. If they get a good linux build for that then it's Debian all the way for me.
I usually don't mind targeted ads, but blanket ads are terrible. That being said, I went to G2A to see if they still seemed to be behaving like scum (they do) and got shown G2A ads for awhile.
That is seriously pissing me off, as you have to close the ad to get it to go away.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
I must have been going through a rough patch when news of the opening of the "Facebook equivalent" hit Slashdot, but I heard nary a peep about it out of Microsoft. No wonder nobody used it.
Maybe it's only on Insider builds at the moment? I'm on an Insider build and it's there.
Might I recommend Q-Dir as a possible general purpose explorer alternative.
http://www.softwareok.com/?sei...
If you like multi-pane file managers a la Norton Commander or Midnight Commander, you might enjoy this. Not open source, but it does appear to be unencumbered freeware.
There is no XUL, only WebExtensions...
For all the "but Google!" BS, on Android I've never been spammed on my home screen or in apps that are a part of basic phone functionality. Any of the ad-supported apps I've installed are upfront about it.
The more I read about Windows 10's bullshit, the more I'm glad I dodged that bullet. When Windows 7 dies, my last Windows partitions will get nuked or else isolated from the net. I already run Ubuntu+Cinnamon on my important desktops.
Oh, no! You have walked into the slavering fangs of a lurking grue!
Yup. How's a hoover like a PC running Win10?
Turn them on and they'll suck.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
"Windows 10, the most advanced advertising system, errr, I mean "operating system" we've ever released!"
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
I just bought a Samsung tablet, which had Orifice bloatware pre-installed on it - it keeps spamming me about OneDrive as well
Win 7 to Win10 support.
Versions up to 3.9.0 were open source (later versions no longer are due to code poaching sadly.)
Provides all the class start menu looks plus the Win9x/NT4/2K taskbar stylings.
Not 100 percent positive it gets rid of the ads, but I don't remember seeing them the one or two times I trialled Win10 with it.
Turn them on and they'll suck.
Tell that to my girlfriend...
It sounds like you don't know how to turn her on.
Velociraptor = Distiraptor / Timeraptor
Yep, I also want to pay to get a decent Win 10 version as I paid my Win 7 license a few years ago.
I do NOT want a free lunch, I want a nice OS and I'm willing to pay for it. Sadly, Microsoft is no longer interested in selling a nice version of Windows to people. Also, while they may tweak a few things now and then it's pretty clear what I want from Windows (basically an updated version of 7, with an UI adapted to mouse usage, no ads, no forced Microsoft services and no spying) is fundamentally opposed to want Ms seem to wan from 10 so a "nice" version of 10 will never happen.
"OneDrive is baked into Windows 10 and can't easily be uninstalled"
Actually it's under programs and features now and can be uninstalled in seconds.
I'm at the point where I'm now just exhausted from seeing news like this, which is probably what they've been trying to accomplish in the first place.
Our choices are:
Use Google's os and get fucked over for privacy. The lackluster choices for decent desktop applications means that Chromebooks continue to be nothing more than glorified physical web browsers that are useless without always-on internet, for the foreseeable future.
Use Microsoft's OS and get even more fucked over by privacy, cause they can siphon literally anything off of your hard drive without your by or leave. They also force advertising into your OS, which is especially offensive since the average person *must* run Windows 10 because they don't have any other choice, especially for games. And if THAT wasn't bad enough, Microsoft is such a lousy track record for updates, that there are better than even odds that some update they push (which you have zero control over), will completely hose your system. So from one day to the next your computer can break due to no fault of your own.
Use Apple's OS, which out of the bunch, is actually surprisingly good, at least as far as privacy is concerned. I'm biased, but (as a casual gamer) I consider MacOS to be the best of the bunch because it's very easy for non-tech savvy users, while still giving you a whole lot of power if you want it. You actually have the option of turning stuff off, and Apple actually honours those settings. You can have as much or as little control of the OS as you want (and by control, I mean stuff that's actually important. I don't consider arbitrarily changing the colour of your menu bar background to be important). HOWEVER, they completely and shamelessly take the utter piss out of their hardware, charging a stupid amount of money for what they give you while giving you ZERO control over it. They seem to think a $4000 computer is a disposable appliance like a toaster, and if you don't like it... well... fuck you.
Use Linux, and have complete control of the OS, but the level of maintenance and knowledge required (even today in 2017), is still several levels beyond any other OS, with no guarantees that even basic functionality that you take for granted in other systems will work. While improving, general driver support is still dubious, and you may as well forget about using the latest shiny if it uses a new chipset. Desktop software ubiquitous in other OSes flat out don't exist, and the OSS equivalents are... lets be honest here... crap. Even 'flagship' software like Evolution is inexplicably lacking so much polish, that you start to wonder why you bothered to install Linux in the first place.
So yeah... having seen computer history unfold over the last few decades, it honestly seems like things are getting worse, without any sign of that trend changing.
If you're using a a "free" service
1. Windows 10 hasn't been free in almost a year. It's still possible to get it free if you're disabled (or a liar), but for the general public, the free offer ended July 29 2016 and Windows 10 costs money.
2. Linux is free and doesn't show me any ads.
If you are still using Windows 10 after all the terrible shit that's already come, you have earned this.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
I often wonder if Microsoft is really just running an experiment to discover how much garbage users will actually tolerate.
"Let's say a mobile OS is a desktop OS!"
"Let's remove the start menu!"
"Let's make UAC do ridiculous things!"
"Let's force updates and reboots whenever we want!"
"Let's dump advertisements in weird places!"
As an aside, I could probably make a killing by writing an ad-blocker for the OS...
An internal system operation returned the error "The operation completed successfully.".
Get compatible Windows 7 hardware and you are good to go, Asus Z170 will work well and its fast.
Even God forbid Win 8.1 isn't too bad if you get Classic Shell.
It took Windows 10 to make Windows 8.1 look like a really good option. Only downside is marketshare is small compared to 7 (great for old hardware) and 10 (only going to get bigger.)
Did. Works as designed.
Problem seems to be at your end.
Ticket closed.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I don't use Explorer. Directory Opus ftw
FC Closer
Slash dot refuses to post anything I submit, as I dared submit a few conservative leaning stories.... So I can't submit this.
The real story IMHO is how badly One Drive does its job, it truly sucks beyond sucking, is dumber than a bag of hammers, etc.. What's worse is that when you complain on their forums you get Microsoft Engineers telling you all these grand fantasies about how it works, and when you counter with actual engineering use cases they ignore you.
One Drive is not an external drive and it is not cloud storage. It's a shadow volume for selected files and folders that maybe sometimes but not on any schedule maybe makes a copy of files on your desktop that you really can't use on another computer unless you have an insane Internet connection and an SSD. Anyone who is stupid enough to trust this thing for backup will lose data. Your files are "available" on another computer but if you actually USE them the changes don't sync back, and god forbid you try and manually sync. Google One Drive Sync Errors.... So many people have had their critical files ERASED by One Drive.
I really, really need what One Drive does. And really, this is about as simple as it gets to make it work properly. Only Microsoft could take something this simple, and screw it up this bad. It's even worse than their total inability to have a decent FTP client, or talk to a WebDAV volume - when these technologies have been out for 20 years now.
Murphy was an optimist