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Let me lay this out for you: you've seen a screenshot - which may be real, or may not be, since screenshots are easy to fake - which backs a narrative which you and this service generally buy into. When that is pushed back on you don't go, "huh, yeah I guess this might not be the slam dunk it's presented as" but instead dig your heels in.
I booted up a windows machine and checked, and the first suggestion is the terminal application. I don't know if the difference is due to trickery or misconfiguration, but I do know that it's not particularly supportive of the narrative that you clearly subscribe to when a bunch of people don't even get the supposed bad behaviour.
Assuming that all the people who don't get the same result just turned off some option: my Linux laptop had an issue where it didn't work properly with monitors behind MST hubs. I spent hours finding an imperfect workaround and dealing with said imperfections until eventually (years later) it was fixed. In comparison, finding and disabling whatever option this might be controlled by takes a few minutes (I assume - like I said, I can't remember disabling it, if indeed I did, but I'm sure it wasn't complicated else I would remember)
Now, I still prefer Linux; it's the right trade-off for me most of the time. But y'all could stand to be less fuckin religious about it. Most people, I would think, would take the 5 minutes to google and disable something they don't like over the hours of time I've wasted for this one issue.
I ain't gonna bother reading any more of your comment than that, because the tone of your first sentence tells me everything I need to know about what you're going to say. below is the page from microsoft themselves covering the advertisements in windows, specifically saying they will push products and services relevant to the personalized information they have on your usage. the advertisements have been covered by dozens of journalists since early 2024. just because you don't want to admit it, doesn't make them any less real. have a nice day.
here's the Microsoft support page on advertisements. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy-settings-for-recommendations-offers-in-windows-11-807608ee-3de2-4498-8e7c-eb10d655567f
Then don't reply.
Literally the best-case scenario for you is that you're incensed over an optional feature.
Now go back and do the bare fucking minimum and read my comment before replying, since that's what we could now be discussing instead of me complaining about how lazy you are.
personalized advertising is on by default. you have to opt out, the support page lied on that one detail. turning it off does not turn off advertisements, it just makes them generalized to people in your area because the advertising is not optional. this is pretty basic, and how all advertising platforms work, not just microsoft. and you know that, you're just pretending you don't.
I'm not gonna waste my time reading novels by fanboys just because your feelings are hurt. you're under no obligation to like that. you can rage and throw a fit if you want, but I'm not going to play your game because I'm under no obligation to humor you in any way.
now, are we done here, or do you want to whine at me some more about how the thing that microsoft announced themselves can't be true because a corporation would never be mean to you?
See, now you're typing falsehoods because you didn't bother reading for fifteen seconds. How embarrassing for you.
I'll take that as you giving up. Good. Now as I said before, have a nice day.