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Microsoft's Weather app now shows more ads (www.ghacks.net)

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It's raining ads in Windows 11. The Microsoft Weather app in the operating system now displays more ads.

You may recall that a year ago, Microsoft had actually removed the ads from the app, and it appeared that the company had finally listened to feedback from users. But the annoying banners are back, and there's two of them now on the Forecast page. For those unaware, the old version of Microsoft Weather was a UWP app, but the company replaced it with an Edge WebView, which is a container that uses the Edge Engine. In other words, the Weather app is technically just a web wrapper for MSN.com/weather. You can test this yourself, just open the website in your browser and temporarily disable your ad blocker to take a look at the ads, now open the desktop app, and you can see that the same ads appear in the Weather app.

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

I had been using Linux for home and work for the past 10 years, dual booting for games mostly (do basically only to use steam).

Recently I had to change jobs and was given a windows laptop. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw that the candy crush ad is still present on corporate devices. In a $3500 workstation from a fortune 50. What the hell.

I managed to get a Mac instead. IT is still laughing about me for asking Linux instead

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Why don't they just rename it to "AdOS" already?

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago

Microsoft: So, what are you going to do about it? Stop using Windows? Hah!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I stopped using it 20 years ago and have never had a need for it since. It sucked then and it still sucks now; I’ve even installed it a couple times in a VM for fun but always ended up deleting it after a few hours. I really don’t understand why someone would choose to tolerate such low quality software even for the most basic of tasks.

[-] [email protected] 52 points 3 days ago

It is raining ads !!!

[-] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago

Hallelujah

[-] [email protected] 51 points 3 days ago

Yay! More free ads!

[-] [email protected] 38 points 3 days ago

Another reason to stop using Windows

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

I mean - if anyone still needs them, I guess M$ is still cranking them out.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Try GNU/Linux

[-] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago

Is this the new technique because all these companies already completed enshitification? Briefly remove the things people hate in the hopes that it will draw them back, only to rug pull them again?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Its Microsoft they're not that smart.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Today's weather, ads. With a high of ads. Ads coming in from the east.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Cloudy with a chance of ads

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Ads with a chance of rain

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Good thing all the software I install comes with WeatherBug

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Bummer that they didn’t have perfect weather for 4/20/02. 4/20 is best on a sunny day.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

its a dystopian world we live in, advertisements to just check the weather..

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Oh no! Anyway...

[-] [email protected] -2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

If you want to know how windows behaves check out this app: https://safing.io/

The amount of hard to explaining pinging that is going on will hurt your brain but you will notice that every time click start or search OR SETTINGS

This bitch is furiously pinging ~~Sundar~~ Satya the creep lol

Your choice people...

Edit: apologies picked the wrong mascot!

[-] [email protected] -3 points 3 days ago

(queue Pink Floyd)

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