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[โ€“] ampersandrew@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Some of these things really do seem to be luck of the draw. Maybe they run A/B tests. Did you get bombarded with ads on Windows 10? I did. My friends had no idea what I was talking about. I for sure got nagged over and over again to use OneDrive back when I still used Windows, and stories like this one were in the news all the time.

[โ€“] MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.works -2 points 8 months ago

I hear people talk about ads in windows 10 all the time, but I can't say I've ever personally run into them, unless you're one of those people who calls the "try switching to edge" in your browser settings an ad