Microsoft's Weather app now shows more ads (www.ghacks.net)
from lemmee_in@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.world on 01 Jul 2024 17:16
https://lemm.ee/post/35998101

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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just_another_person@lemmy.world on 01 Jul 2024 17:50 next collapse

(queue Pink Floyd)

filister@lemmy.world on 01 Jul 2024 18:02 next collapse

Another reason to stop using Windows

melroy@kbin.melroy.org on 01 Jul 2024 19:13 next collapse

Try GNU/Linux

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world on 01 Jul 2024 19:24 collapse

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

tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social on 01 Jul 2024 18:06 next collapse

Yay! More free ads!

sunzu@kbin.run on 01 Jul 2024 18:21 next collapse

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!

sorghum@sh.itjust.works on 01 Jul 2024 18:28 next collapse

Oh no! Anyway…

gnygnygny@lemm.ee on 01 Jul 2024 18:38 next collapse

It is raining ads !!!

far_university1990@feddit.de on 01 Jul 2024 19:21 collapse

Hallelujah

bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 01 Jul 2024 22:09 next collapse

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?

LodeMike@lemmy.today on 01 Jul 2024 22:21 collapse

Its Microsoft they’re not that smart.

bobc7@lemmy.world on 01 Jul 2024 22:47 next collapse

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

brbposting@sh.itjust.works on 01 Jul 2024 23:06 next collapse

Good thing all the software I install comes with WeatherBug

<img alt="" src="https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/8e00cdd8-ae58-4769-a8af-a9d02530b926.jpeg">

Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world on 01 Jul 2024 23:18 collapse

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

NarrativeBear@lemmy.world on 02 Jul 2024 00:40 next collapse

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

xavier666@lemm.ee on 02 Jul 2024 05:22 collapse

Cloudy with a chance of ads

archchan@lemmy.ml on 02 Jul 2024 08:29 collapse

Ads with a chance of rain

xavier666@lemm.ee on 02 Jul 2024 05:23 next collapse

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

undefined@links.hackliberty.org on 02 Jul 2024 07:09 collapse

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.

ad_on_is@lemmy.world on 02 Jul 2024 13:12 next collapse

Why don’t they just rename it to “AdOS” already?

Railcar8095@lemm.ee on 04 Jul 2024 03:54 collapse

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