Today I installed Windows on my laptop and then I visited Reddit without being logged in. The two experiences are very similar.

I usually use Linux, so installing a new OS is really clean. You just end up with an empty operating system and you can do whatever you want.

But while installing Windows the damn program kept asking me for information and pressuring me into giving up my email address and phone number. Then when I finally got in, it’s full of apps like fucking D!sney and Sp0tify… GTFO.

Then I go on Reddit, which I usually think of as a place where people post funny paragraphs and interesting questions… BUT NO… now it’s just a splash page full of pictures and ads and other bullshit.

I know that you already know this, but it’s sooo annoying and ugly.

  • Rentlar
    9•11 months ago

    Windows:

    Can we plz use speech recognition 🙏

    No? Can we use location trackingggg?

    No? How about advertising ID~~~~

    Come onnnn you’re no fun. ☹ Also is your wifi on? Since you’re being such a meanie not letting us use your data, we’re making it difficult to continue without a Microsoft account. Hmph.

    • @infyrin@lemmy.world
      5•11 months ago

      “We want to update!”

      “I don’t want to”

      “Well, I’m going to make it a pain for you to update. You can keep putting off the meaningless update in this little scheduler we have for you. But I’ll keep relying on you to forget sometime soon, so I’ll update! YOU WILL UPDATE! SECURITY! SECURITY!”

    • Hyperreality
      2•11 months ago

      Also is your wifi on? Since you’re being such a meanie not letting us use your data, we’re making it difficult to continue without a Microsoft account. Hmph.

      TBF the last time I tried to install linux, it made it difficult to get my wifi to work, because the drivers simply didn’t exist.

      If Microsoft sold linux, they’d call that privacy by design.