Activision and Xbox have teamed up to release full screen ads for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 on the console's homep…
    • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      143·
      8 months ago

      I shouldn’t have to. And if I do it should all be toggles in one place. Not scattered and hidden throughout control panel, settings, and the terminal.

      • beefcat@lemmy.worldEnglish
        75·
        8 months ago

        You shouldn’t have to, but it’s also something that you only have to do once and takes less than 30 seconds.

        It’s a minor annoyance but people act like microsoft crashed an suv into their living room and killed their cat.

        • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          63·
          8 months ago

          It does not take 30 seconds, it takes up to five minutes. Some of these changes also get reverted with specific updates and suddenly you’re seeing ads again.

          • beefcat@lemmy.worldEnglish
            54·
            8 months ago

            I’ve never had this change reverted in an update.

            And it does not take 5 minutes, I can do it in less than 30 seconds. It’s a single key in the registry.

            • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
              33·
              8 months ago

              Thats the tailored experiences, common users dont have the knowledge to safely edit registry keys. Thats a bullshit excuse to hide ads there and you know it. Stop defending shitty practices.

              • beefcat@lemmy.worldEnglish
                52·
                8 months ago

                i’m not defending it. literally the first thing i said was that users shouldn’t have to do this.

                and it’s not the tailored experiences, i’m talking about the “feature” that puts web results in the start menu search.

                all i did was add some nuance to the conversation and you’re crucifying me over it because i didn’t pile on the circlejerk.

                • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  33·
                  8 months ago

                  Yes I am. Saying “its not that bad, it only takes thirty seconds” is literally defending shoving ads down our throats and making them hard to remove. That way of thinking deserves to be crucified. Ads have no place living on an OS.