BarqsHasBite@lemmy.ca to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoI just got a pop up ad from Windows, for PC gaming and buy their Xbox controller.message-squaremessage-square48fedilinkarrow-up1214arrow-down114file-text
arrow-up1200arrow-down1message-squareI just got a pop up ad from Windows, for PC gaming and buy their Xbox controller.BarqsHasBite@lemmy.ca to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square48fedilinkfile-text
A Windows pop up, right above the system tray. Holy fuck. I would have screen shot it but I was in disbelief.
minus-squarepenquin@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24arrow-down1·1 year agoI just used their own firewall to block all the Microsoft ads URLs. I even changed my DNS server to the adguard one so I don’t see ads anywhere. That’s for the one laptop I have with Windows on it. My main desktop and other laptop both run Linux.
minus-squarepenquin@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·1 year ago“penquin” is there for a reason 😁
I just used their own firewall to block all the Microsoft ads URLs. I even changed my DNS server to the adguard one so I don’t see ads anywhere. That’s for the one laptop I have with Windows on it. My main desktop and other laptop both run Linux.
Poetic 👌
“penquin” is there for a reason 😁