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Microsoft's Weather app now shows more ads (www.ghacks.net)

submitted 4 months ago by lemmee_in@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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It's raining ads in Windows 11. The Microsoft Weather app in the operating system now displays more ads.

You may recall that a year ago, Microsoft had actually removed the ads from the app, and it appeared that the company had finally listened to feedback from users. But the annoying banners are back, and there's two of them now on the Forecast page. For those unaware, the old version of Microsoft Weather was a UWP app, but the company replaced it with an Edge WebView, which is a container that uses the Edge Engine. In other words, the Weather app is technically just a web wrapper for MSN.com/weather. You can test this yourself, just open the website in your browser and temporarily disable your ad blocker to take a look at the ads, now open the desktop app, and you can see that the same ads appear in the Weather app.

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[–] gnygnygny@lemm.ee 55 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It is raining ads !!!

[–] far_university1990@feddit.de 25 points 4 months ago

Hallelujah

[–] tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social 53 points 4 months ago

Yay! More free ads!

[–] filister@lemmy.world 40 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Another reason to stop using Windows

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

I mean - if anyone still needs them, I guess M$ is still cranking them out.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 4 months ago

Try GNU/Linux

[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Microsoft: So, what are you going to do about it? Stop using Windows? Hah!

[–] undefined@links.hackliberty.org 6 points 4 months ago

I stopped using it 20 years ago and have never had a need for it since. It sucked then and it still sucks now; I’ve even installed it a couple times in a VM for fun but always ended up deleting it after a few hours. I really don’t understand why someone would choose to tolerate such low quality software even for the most basic of tasks.

[–] bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Is this the new technique because all these companies already completed enshitification? Briefly remove the things people hate in the hopes that it will draw them back, only to rug pull them again?

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 8 points 4 months ago

Its Microsoft they're not that smart.

[–] ad_on_is@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

Why don't they just rename it to "AdOS" already?

[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Today's weather, ads. With a high of ads. Ads coming in from the east.

[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Cloudy with a chance of ads

[–] archchan@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

Ads with a chance of rain

[–] bobc7@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

its a dystopian world we live in, advertisements to just check the weather..

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Good thing all the software I install comes with WeatherBug

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Bummer that they didn’t have perfect weather for 4/20/02. 4/20 is best on a sunny day.

[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago

Oh no! Anyway...

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

I had been using Linux for home and work for the past 10 years, dual booting for games mostly (do basically only to use steam).

Recently I had to change jobs and was given a windows laptop. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw that the candy crush ad is still present on corporate devices. In a $3500 workstation from a fortune 50. What the hell.

I managed to get a Mac instead. IT is still laughing about me for asking Linux instead

[–] sunzu@kbin.run -2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

If you want to know how windows behaves check out this app: https://safing.io/

The amount of hard to explaining pinging that is going on will hurt your brain but you will notice that every time click start or search OR SETTINGS

This bitch is furiously pinging ~~Sundar~~ Satya the creep lol

Your choice people...

Edit: apologies picked the wrong mascot!

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world -3 points 4 months ago

(queue Pink Floyd)