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flukus on April 5, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Where will UX Design be in 5 years?

Yes. The login screen has "click to buy this desktop wallpaper" ads and occasionally paid ad placements (I believe there was a tomb raider one). And recently they've been putting their cloud drive (OneDrive??) ads in explorer (even for the pro edition). It was one of the final straws that pushed me back to linux.

quickben on April 5, 2017 [–]

The crazy thing is that it does that per account apparently.

I ran few tools under my admin acc and I stopped seeing most of the crap.

I saw my wife clicking the start menu under her account on the same PC, and sure enough, ads there.

I think I'll just move Win10 under a VM to preserve some apps and run Linux.

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