Luminous5481

what's gonna help me sleep at night is you finally being honest and admitting that Linux is superior.

see? I showed you. you can't handle it so you're just crashing out and refusing to even bother trying to refute it, because you know I'm fucking right.

here's the Microsoft support page on advertisements. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy-settings-for-recommendations-offers-in-windows-11-807608ee-3de2-4498-8e7c-eb10d655567f

If you choose to turn on Personalized offers, we will use information about your device and how you use it, including Windows diagnostic data, in combination with your account info and data collected by other Microsoft products and services to offer you personalized tips, ads, and recommendations to enhance your Windows experiences. Personalized offers include suggestions on how to customize and optimize Windows, as well as ads and recommendations for Microsoft and third-party products and services, features, apps, and hardware to enhance your Windows experiences. For example, Windows might tell you about new features to help you get the most out of your device. If you stream movies in your browser, Windows might recommend an app from the Microsoft Store that streams more efficiently. Or, if you are running out of space on your hard drive, Windows might recommend you try OneDrive or purchase hardware to add more storage.

cry more about it all you want, but Microsoft themselves say you are wrong, and I am right.

yes, I did, you just didn't have any retort to it. we're still waiting on you to explain why it's bullshit when microsoft announced it themselves and it's been covered on dozens of tech journalism sites since early 2024. there's literally a toggle in the control panel to turn personalized ads off.

STFU

...or what?

it wouldn't show you this ad unless you typically watch this sort of thing. the advertising is personalized, although I believe you can opt out of that in the control panel.

you're not particularly gifted with an overabundance of smarts, are you?

that's a pretty silly thing to say, considering multiple technology websites have been posting similar screenshots and reporting on this for well over a year, ever since it was announced the ads were coming. was it bullshit when PC Mag reported on it? when CNET reported on it? when any one of the dozens of other sites did? was it bullshit when Microsoft themselves said they were coming?

it's bullshit because why? you fanboy microsoft? ok, that's fine, you're entitled to your opinion, but ads all over Windows is a fact of life now, and no amount of denial from you is going to change the objective reality. they've said they are going to be pushing advertising to more areas of windows. they don't give a shit if their users don't want to believe that. they didn't ask for your opinion on the matter.

Can you recreate it?

I would never subject myself to that sort of enshitified corporate bullshit. I value my time far too much to use windows. so to answer your question, I refuse to debase myself by recreating it. if you're into that sort of stuff I won't kink shame you too much, but that ain't for me, fam.

How is it bullshit? You clearly see the screenshot.

I can’t believe the stuff windows users put up with.

“Privacy-focused browser”

paid for by the largest corporate espionage agency that spies on Americans for the US government

the best kind of racist.

Yes, pretty much any Linux distro can be configured to encrypt just the home directory. Whole drive encryption is more common because it's more secure, obviously.