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Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising (www.techradar.com)

submitted 5 months ago by lemmee_in@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Windows 11 is getting out of hand with its push for advertisments, frankly - remember the recent full-screen pop-up to persuade users to install Edge or other Microsoft services? Then another advertisment was placed in the Start menu, and now Microsoft has finally worn my temper thin - with a new Game Pass ad coming to the Settings app.

This will likely arrive in the July update for Windows 11, or at least it’s almost certain to do so. It was present in the latest preview update Microsoft just released for the OS (and quickly paused due to a bug, but that’s another story). It’s also worth noting that the ad has been present in earlier test versions of Windows 11.

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[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago (12 children)

Lemmy: why aren't people using Linux? It's so easy

Also Lemmy: webp huh?

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (10 children)

What’s webp and why should I care?

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

Google’s image format

It’s smaller than png which a company that shows images really likes because it’s cheaper so to force adoption they convert a bunch of images to .webp on google images

The problem is that 1. It hadn’t been adapted anywhere so people would have to convert it back to png to use 2. It is worse in every aspect to jxl files so Google has had to block the adaptation of jxl on the web as much as they can (jxl retains more quality and is half the size of webp)

Currently only webkit browsers support jxl out of the box. Firefox has had it in their nightly builds for years now but have never moved it into standard

[–] notanaltaccount@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Foss users should start making jxl only websites just to fuck chrome users and google.

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