Microsoft's Weather app now shows more ads
Microsoft reintroduces ads in Windows 11 Weather app, now persistent on every page. Users criticize intrusive ads and suggest ad-blocking tools or alternative weather sources. Microsoft's ad-heavy strategy faces backlash.
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Microsoft's Weather app in Windows 11 has reintroduced ads, despite removing them a year ago. The app, now using an Edge WebView, displays persistent ads on every page, including the Forecast page. Users have no option to hide or close the ads, except by blocking servers. The ads, along with irrelevant news articles, are seen as intrusive. However, a workaround exists where ads only appear in maximized mode. Microsoft's aggressive ad strategies extend beyond the Weather app, with ads appearing in various apps like Game Pass and Windows Defender. Users are advised to consider using ad-blocking tools or alternative weather sources. Despite the ad influx, the Weather app features a new design with blur and transparency effects. Microsoft's ad-heavy approach has drawn criticism for being anti-consumer, prompting users to seek ad-free alternatives or solutions to mitigate the ad onslaught.
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12 commentsMeanwhile essentially every version of macOS is free (gotta go back a few years to find retail upgrade copies, which are still far less expensive than Windows and never contain advertisements)
Given Microsoft's full dive into gathering personalized information, integrating those collection pipelines deeply into the operating system, and integrating AI into the OS, it seems likely to me that personalized ads are coming to a Windows system near you.
On a related note, gnome weather is minimalist, very lightweight, and entirely ad free.
I just wish it displayed the weather, but it seems to ignore my configuration or I have skill issues.
At home, for all of my work, I use Fedora.
Poor ancient companies using Windows/Microsoft services. They were too slow to adjust to Microsoft's turn to anti-consumer behavior. Now fortune 50 employees are subjected to Microsoft clickbait.
> We and our [165] partners place cookies, access and use non-sensitive information from your device to improve our products and personalize ads...
Then again, I know better than fully trusting a third-party patch for an operating system, of all things… so I only use that for games and absolutely nothing else. My main daily os at the moment is Manjaro.
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