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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 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.
Windows 7.
its amazing; they charge full price for win10 (now; the free ones were just a gimmick to get their 'adoption numbers' up and to hook people into this one-way trip) and yet, they also send ads to you and you can't really opt-out, either!
either you make the o/s free and then people MAY be ok with ads; or you charge your normal full price and you KEEP THAT SHIT OFF OUR SYSTEMS.
every few years, the 'evil one' becomes apple and then MS and then apple and now back to MS again.
glad I'm a linux user and admin. I have choices that many users refuse to allow themselves.
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"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
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.
Not (yet) true, but we're getting there. It is almost less hassle by now to get your favorite programs to work in Linux than to get them to work the way they're supposed to in Windows.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Do you have cable?
And I am sure that with newspeak (Uber: We are not a taxi company), we will soon get that these are not ads. They are consumer infomation bulletins or some other crap. That will give them another 2-4 years to change the law in their favour.
And MS and Apple are not the most evil ones. They are just the biggest ones.
In the mean time all we see is some people moan about it on some websites. The companies are not interested in you as a customer. So why would they do what you want?
If you see how much money these companies make, you can harly blame them, because what they do works.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
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
Here's some more tips to improve your career chances -
- don't forget to learn all about football so you can fit in round the water cooler.
- it doesn't hurt if you can at least pretend to like the same cookie cutter women as everyone else so you can join in the wolf whistles
- on social occasions only drink branded beers. A whisky chaser is OK, but cocktails are definitely out
- acceptable hobbies are 5 a side football, jogging and perhaps martial arts (but nothing obscure - stick to karate or kick boxing)
- only wimps do lunch. A sandwich at your desk is ok
- remember to always put down work colleagues, especially if the boss is around
- the boss is always right and will respect you telling him so
Say what you want about Apple, but they would never do shit like this.
You mean like Apple Music constantly asking me to subscribe when I just want to play a local music file on my phone? Or the constant nagging to enable icloud services?
When you're given an OS or OS update for free, expect upselling.
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.
They're a public corporation with one goal: maximizing profit. Full stop.
You don't need more than one period at the end of a sentence.
Their obligation is to produce a product that extracts as much money as possible from Windows users. Period.
Really, you don't.
If you are still using Windows 10 after all the terrible shit that's already come, you have earned this.
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