• Chainweasel@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I take it you haven’t used Windows 11 yet, The start menu is basically all advertisements.

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        2 years ago

        I shouldn’t have to. And if I do it should all be toggles in one place. Not scattered and hidden throughout control panel, settings, and the terminal.

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          2 years ago

          You shouldn’t have to, but it’s also something that you only have to do once and takes less than 30 seconds.

          It’s a minor annoyance but people act like microsoft crashed an suv into their living room and killed their cat.

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            2 years ago

            It does not take 30 seconds, it takes up to five minutes. Some of these changes also get reverted with specific updates and suddenly you’re seeing ads again.

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              2 years ago

              I’ve never had this change reverted in an update.

              And it does not take 5 minutes, I can do it in less than 30 seconds. It’s a single key in the registry.

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                2 years ago

                Thats the tailored experiences, common users dont have the knowledge to safely edit registry keys. Thats a bullshit excuse to hide ads there and you know it. Stop defending shitty practices.

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                  2 years ago

                  i’m not defending it. literally the first thing i said was that users shouldn’t have to do this.

                  and it’s not the tailored experiences, i’m talking about the “feature” that puts web results in the start menu search.

                  all i did was add some nuance to the conversation and you’re crucifying me over it because i didn’t pile on the circlejerk.