Comment on Microsoft is testing Game Pass ads on the Windows 11 Settings homepage

• accideath@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The funny thing is, there isn’t even really a free OS with ads. At least none that I know of. Linux is open source and thus usually non commercial. Worst case you get a “please donate” the first time you log in. macOS is technically free (although you kinda subsidize it through the hardware, I suppose) and it doesn’t have ads and even chrome OS is ad free afaik. It’s really only Windows and some Android flavours, usually those running on very cheap chinese devices. And Samsung of course.

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  • HauntedCupcake@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ubuntu has ads, or at least takes money to have shortcuts to Amazon and the like

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    • unautrenom@jlai.lu ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      To my knowledge, this hasn’t been the case for nearly a decade, after the backlash they received specifically for it.

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      • HauntedCupcake@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Thank you, I haven’t used Ubuntu for nearly a decade 😅 I’ve updated my comment suggesting people look at the replies

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    • sag@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In Past

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    • accideath@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ah right. Count on canonical to make my point moot.

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Historical truth not active truth.

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• lemmy_user_838586@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is what finally got me to switch to Linux years ago. Back when Virtual machines were relatively new I was messing around with them and hated having to scrounge for windows licenses to use in the VM’s. (Back then you had to enter the CD Key to begin installing the OS, they didn’t have trial periods, or ‘activate later’ options) started using Linux in VM’s to try it out, and boom 15 years later, I’m never going back.

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What’s interesting is that they haven’t been enforcing antipiracy all that heavily.

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  • kescusay@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe they’re making more money now from ads shown in pirated copies of Windows than they do from actually selling Windows.

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