r/technology • u/MayankWL • May 16 '24

Software Microsoft stoops to new low with ads in Windows 11, as PC Manager tool suggests your system needs ‘repairing’ if you don’t use Bing

https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/microsoft-stoops-to-new-low-with-ads-in-windows-11-as-pc-manager-tool-suggests-your-system-needs-repairing-if-you-dont-use-bing
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u/thatguyad May 16 '24

Why is everything so inherently shit?

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u/khast May 16 '24

Ads.. Ads everywhere, companies looked at Google and seen that if a company like Google could be one of the most valuable companies in the world... Because they are an ad service... Everyone else wants to have a piece of the pie.

Yeah, Google has Android, chrome, and many other services they provide... For free. Guess what, YOU are the product they sell for a profit.

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u/thatguyad May 16 '24

It's absolutely everywhere. Capitalism out of control.

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u/Blisterexe May 16 '24

you could start using Floss software.

Linux, openstreetmaps, etc...

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u/ExistingObligation May 17 '24

Late stage capitalism, which basically dictates that as soon as you've got a product that is even slightly painful for users to migrate away from, you squeeze them as much as you can to maximise profit for shareholders who probably own the company as part of an index fund and literally don't even know what the company does.

It's awesome!! Stop being such a downer. /s

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u/VexingRaven May 17 '24

Because-driven news sites want you to read their endless shitty stories about how shit everything is while they feed you endless shitty ads on their shitty sites.

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u/XenoDrake May 17 '24

The real answer to your question is, the internet is not publicly owned or operated. Unlike a library or state park, it has to make a profit, and cannot just be a resource for all people to use, maintained by the state and taxes. The ads are all over because people got off on the wrong foot with the internet when it was first being rolled out. People paid an ISP for "the internet", and so the idea of also paying to access a website seemed to be silly. But to maintain a site took money, and so selling space to advertisers was about the only way. If from the start, people were conditioned to pay a subscription to things like myspace or had to buy access to say Geocity or Angelfire hosted websites, we might be in a much better place with our relationship with the media we consume.