To the surprise of absolutely nobody. There’s no way it was going to be free and have no ads.
Windows Copilot's is showing third-party Ads to Windows users - gHacks Tech News
Submitted 1 year ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/10/03/windows-copilots-is-showing-third-party-ads-to-windows-users/
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simple@lemm.ee 1 year ago
bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Do you think that the next step is product placement?
“Draw a rabbit wearing a top hat.”
Produces picture of rabbit, wearing a top hat, sipping a coke.
simple@lemm.ee 1 year ago
That would be hilariously evil, but I doubt they’d go that far. They’ll likely just put an ad in-between every prompt if they decide to go full greed.
Buelldozer@lemmy.today 1 year ago
It won’t be free for long. MS already announced that it will be moving to a paid service shortly.
_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Wonder if they’ll use the Hulu model of “pay us money and still see ads”…
ohlaph@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I jave had mixed results. I asked it to generate a user interface and it was absolute gibberish.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The best, but still pretty bad at understanding some very basic ideas.
jay9@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Geez, ads baked into an OS. What a time to be alive.
stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 1 year ago
The ads have been baked in for a while. Every time I turn on my PC, the first thing I see is it trying to get me to buy Game Pass, and when Starfield came out, it was putting pictures from the game on that startup screen. Even after I tried to turn that off, it still showed them.
kautau@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah windows has been an ad delivery platform since windows 11 came out. It’s why it was a “free” upgrade for so many people
throws_lemy@lemmy.nz 1 year ago
Right? You bought the OS but you still get ads. Even worse, it sends your data to MS servers
wooki@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
Microsoft has outright lost the plot with Windows. Spyware Operating System.
Linux has come a long way people, far more than you might realise and very suitable for the enterprise. Do yourself a favour, find a distribution that appeals to you and try it out.
Moneo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m tech-comfortable but can’t see myself using Linux until it is near-seamless. Windows is a pain in the ass in so many ways but when I want to play a game or install a program I can. I can disable all of the annoying/invasive features one time and never have to deal with them again.
I’m definitely rooting for Linux though and appreciate the users supporting the ecosystem.
noxy@yiffit.net 1 year ago
near-seamless
As near-seamless as Windows? I’d argue it’s already there!
TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 1 year ago
I looked at my Windows install one day and realized over half the programs I use are open source anyway. With Proton taking care of the few games I actually give a shit about, I don't miss Windows at all in the last four years.
I actually got into Linux like 23 years ago but never fully made the jump myself and delete my Windows partition until 2019.
wooki@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
Honestly you will have far less issues on Linux in general. That is with the possible exception of some games take a little bit to get up and running but most on steam are very easy and you will be quite surprised at how many run on Linux.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m not trying to twist your arm or change your mind, Just giving you some first hand notes.
But honestly, it is near seamless as is. Especially if you mostly play steam games. The only games that don’t work are ones that use grossly invasive anticheats, like Asian MMOs.
Check out protondb.com if you havent yet and look up the type of games you generally play.
and if you play games from other sources, theres usually a lutris script to install it with 1 click.
Just to give a recent example, I was playing Starfield the second it unlocked via proton with zero technical issues.
spuncertv@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 year ago
If you have an old computer you don’t use much, you should consider giving linux a try. My Windows 10 installation on my desktop is far less stable than the arch instance on my laptop, and I am very much in the “still learning” phase of using it.
ohlaph@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I use windows mostly for gaming now. If I’m doing anything else, I swap to my Linux disk. I don’t use Arch, by the way, I use Fedora.
AnarchistArtificer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I was doing something similar for a while, but I found I struggled with inertia enough that I kept doing non-gaming stuff on Windows. I switched to using Fedora as my main operating system, getting rid of Windows entirely, and I’ve been pleasantly surprised by how straightforward gaming has been. (Though as I understand it, it’s trickier for people with Nvidia GPUs)
the_q@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Now is a great time to give Linux a shot. I recommend Pop! OS.
mofongo@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Does pop os also have a copilot?
kescusay@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You really, really don’t need an AI assistant for regular computer usage. It’s a solution in search of a problem.
There are genuinely good reasons to use GitHub Copilot if you’re a developer, but otherwise, I think they’re way more trouble than they’re worth.
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 1 year ago
No Linux distro has, as M$ hasn’t made their AIs open source. But there are people working on open source alternatives.
Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Theres paid ai … like this
github.com/KillianLucas/open-interpreter
Give commands to chatgpt in the the terminal. Then it executes it. It can generate files, etc as well. Using python iirc.
Jocker@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
No, stay with windows.
FrancisFeliz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Use Linux.
michael@leuker.me 1 year ago
Sigh, one more thing for the list …
“Didn’t you have ad’s in the 21st century?”
“Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written on the sky. Oh, and in our operating systems. But not in dreams. No siree!”
buycurious@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Microsoft: the beatings will continue until morale improves
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Microsoft: We now inject the malware attack vector directly into your OS because it makes us slightly more money.
itsraining@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Like it wouldn’t.
Please, it’s 2023. Corporarions have totally embraced the “you are the product” model. They offer you a service on their infrastructure (“the cloud”) on their terms, which they can modify and terminate on will. Then they make money by selling your data, showing you ads and using your data to personalize those ads so that you are more likely to click on them.
Shame or ethics? Please, it’s money that makes the world go round. Ads in every app! Ads on the web! Ads in every corner of the city! Ads on public transport! More ads! Even more ads! No square centimeter of physical and virtual space left unused!
It’s really pathetic.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Microsoft will keep doing this shit until their monopoly is broken.
I don’t know why people are continuously surprised at MS doing scummy things when they pretty much control the market, have little to no competition, and regulators have proven they don’t care.
macallik@kbin.social 1 year ago
Come on all to Linux yall, the
water'sopen-source vibes are fineFish@midwest.social 1 year ago
I was finally able to get rid of the ads in Windows. I’m sure that doesn’t block everything, but editing the ‘hosts’ file helps. At least I don’t see any ads in Windows anymore. Here is an simple tutorial that I found on how to do so: youtu.be/IJr2DcffquI
LastoftheDinosaurs@lemmy.world 1 year ago
[deleted]Fish@midwest.social 1 year ago
No, it was included when I bought my laptop.
Anonymousllama@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Truly amazing. Usually you roll out these features, get the userbase involved and intrigued at these new features, get used to them and THEN try and monetize it to capitalize on the sunk cost feeling
spacecadet@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Reasons I haven’t owned a windows device in over a decade. I’ll pay the premium for Mac to not have to deal with this bull shit. Also Mac has been killing it in the user privacy game.
ButtCheekOnAStick@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Too bad half the shit I do on my computer, Macs aren’t even capable of.
circuscritic@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
lol. What? Unless your personal computer is actually a backend server for heavy infrastructure, then a Mac can probably do it.
Computers are just tools, and a personal computer running MacOS can do more or less the same as one running Windows. One tool might be better optimized than the other, like gaming on Windows, but that’s about it.
You might prefer one, or not know how accomplish what you want on the other, but that doesn’t mean it can’t do it. It just means you don’t know how.
Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s like you actually went out of your way to post something more irrelevant and unhelpful than “jUsT UsE LiNuX”
spacecadet@lemm.ee 1 year ago
“JuST uSe WinDow5!” Is probably the least helpful advice. Windows is garbage.
starman@programming.dev 1 year ago
Also Mac has been killing it in the user privacy game.
Okay, I thought you were serious, but now you have to be joking
clanginator@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I removed copilot the instant I saw it. I don’t need any more Microsoft online shit built into my OS, thanks.
AdmiralShat@programming.dev 1 year ago
I keep telling myself im going to give linux a try at some point, and I should probably get familiar with it as soon as possible
AnarchistArtificer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Your instinct is right, because it does take a little bit of time to be familiar enough that it’s automatic, but it doesn’t need to be a big daunting thing - I first dabbled with Linux running in a virtual box. Then I dual booted for a while. Now I’m running just Linux. Dipping your toe in the water is good
plz1@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Here’s the knife they slip in with a new “free” feature in Windows…
At least with co-pilot for O365, they are charging (a lot of) money for the feature, presumably without ads.
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I’m sure it’ll still spy though.
plz1@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No doubt
retfma@feddit.de 1 year ago
acts surprised
nostradiel@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ok, I won’t update anymore my Windows…
mayo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I had a brief look at enabling this but I didn’t see the point. Copilot in the office suite or outlook makes sense though.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 1 year ago
3rd party ads lead to the roulette wheel of malware injection. M$ can’t even keep the malware links off of their garbage MSN homepage on Edge. This would be an extremely dumb move, and they will do it anyway because it trades off security for money.