• Midnight Wolf@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I mean I’m cheering for Linux adoption too, but I’ve never received an ad beyond the initial install crapware app stubs. I do a sweep on the system settings, clean the junk, and I’m off to the races.

    For the unsuspecting users, the privacy concerns are quite bad though.

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      2 years ago

      I keep seeing ads in my notifications on my windows installation for windows store items or bing.

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        2 years ago

        Out of curiosity, do you have a screenshot? Unless I have always been the B/control group in A/B testing or something, it sounds super weird.

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            2 years ago

            That’s not the notification tray, though? I mean bleh but you have to go searching for that, and it is somewhat relevant given that most users are logged into their MS account, and this is the accounts settings page… am I missing something?

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          2 years ago

          No, I only boot into windows when I game, so its been a couple days since I’ve gotten one of the notifications.