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posted by martyb on Saturday November 05 2016, @06:31PM   Printer-friendly
from the YOU-are-the-product dept.

Windows 10 is now serving Edge advertisements to anyone that does not have it as the default browser.

These ads appear over the Edge icon in the Windows 10 taskbar, even when Edge is not open. They do appear only when Edge is not the default system browser but that covers the majority of Windows 10 systems.

Since it advertises Microsoft Edge and Microsoft Rewards, it is possible that the campaign is reserved to the United States. The reason for this is simple: Microsoft Rewards are only available in the US right now.

This is not the only ad that promotes Microsoft Edge that users may see however. Microsoft is pushing ads in the Action Center as well stating that Chrome is draining battery fast and that switching to Edge would better the situation.

Both ads have some use for users and try to promote a feature of Microsoft Edge or Microsoft that may be beneficial to users.

One could argue that this is a good thing, and it probably would not get such a bad reception if Microsoft would provide clear and concise options to turn of[f] these after they appear once.

The main issue that many Windows 10 users may have with these ads is however that is seems impossible to get rid of those advertisements once and for all.

Microsoft really wants Windows 10 users to use Cortana and Edge.


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  • (Score: 1) by ShadowSystems on Sunday November 06 2016, @04:52AM

    by ShadowSystems (6185) <ShadowSystemsNO@SPAMGmail.com> on Sunday November 06 2016, @04:52AM (#423020)

    Pretty much nailed it. When your carrier charges you by the byte (figuratively) then you're loathe to use your phone for much of anything that might even *remotely* touch your data allowance.
    But the biggest reason I don't use a SmartPhone is told in one of my previous posts, to which I will refresh the memory.

    1: Android fails it's own Accessibility tutorial. There is a point where it wants you to make a "swipe-up-and-right" gesture to edit text in a Text Entry Field (TEF). Except that no matter where you start the gesture the tutorial complains that you've missed the TEF & then restarts the lesson. Trigger an endless loop of frustration.

    2: Unless I go to an Apple store & force one of their own employees get the Accessibility working properly, I have evidently no way in hell of getting an Apple phone to talk to me. I've been to two different locations of my carrier, had *Managers* attempting to get the phone to talk to me, & had them proven to be utterly unable to do so. If the carrier manager can't get it to work then the only other option is an actual Apple store... Of which there don't seem to BE any in my backwoods, podunk, agricultural cow town on the outskirts of Silicon Valley. If I were willing to drive ~2 hours to get to the nearest one that Apple claims to me, then I could spend the day listening to some Apple employee doing a ham fisted job of it... But since I'm blind & have to arrange rides about a week in advance to coordinate with my normal form of transportation, then bribe said transportation to make the trip, just GETTING to an Apple store is pretty much a non-starter.

    Windows & Blackberry are non-starters to begin with. My carrier doesn't carry them in sufficient quantity to have any employees who can turn on their Accessibility, if they have any such functionality at all.
    *Sighs*

    I use a Feature flip phone because I'm pretty much forced to do so. Android has it's head up it's ass, Apple needs me to drive to Apple HQ in order to find anyone "genius" enough to get the phone to talk properly, & that pretty much cuts my options to nil.
    =-\

    On the bright side, grasping at the silver lining in this rain cloud, at least my Feature phone doesn't require constant updates to the software!
    Until someone makes a zero day exploit for text messages on a phone that can't click links to follow them, can't run apps to get hijacked by a malformed SMS, or get online to send all my PII to some schmuck in Donkeyfuckistan, they'll just have to pass me by.
    =-)p