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Microsoft Adds Advertisements to Windows 10 File Explorer
Breitbart ^
| 13 Mar 2017
| Jack Hadfield
Posted on 03/13/2017 6:12:38 PM PDT by george76
Microsoft has taken the next step in pushing advertising on customers of its Windows 10 operating system, with users reporting an advertisement for Microsoft OneDrive now appearing in their File Explorer.
Windows 10 has been repeatedly reprimanded by technology journalists over the past year for the increasing amounts of advertising that are baked into the system. Advertisements in various forms have appeared in the Start menu, the lock screen, the taskbar, in the Windows Store, and various other areas. This seems to be the first time that users are noticing them in the File Explorer, the application that allows users to look through their documents and applications on their computer.
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Not only are these advertisements invasive, but they are also incredibly difficult to turn off
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Microsoft has previously found itself being taken to court for its anti-competitive behavior with Internet Explorer, and Wilson believes that the company has “learned nothing” from its past lawsuits.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: explorer; internetexplorer; microsoft; windows; windows10
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posted on
03/13/2017 6:12:38 PM PDT
by
george76
To: george76
Linus is looking better all the time.
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posted on
03/13/2017 6:14:48 PM PDT
by
Ciaphas Cain
(The choice to be stupid is not a conviction I am obligated to respect.)
To: Ciaphas Cain
Thanks!
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posted on
03/13/2017 6:21:54 PM PDT
by
stinkerpot65
(Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
To: george76
That does it....switching to
And yeah - I actually owned one of these once.
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posted on
03/13/2017 6:22:21 PM PDT
by
TomServo
To: Ciaphas Cain; stinkerpot65
Linus is looking better all the time. 
Ah, thanks.
(Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux)
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posted on
03/13/2017 6:24:52 PM PDT
by
markomalley
(Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
To: george76
xplorer2 Windows Explorer on steroids without the ads.
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posted on
03/13/2017 6:26:02 PM PDT
by
KevinB
(Barack Obama: The best example in history of the dangers of affirmative action!)
To: george76
I saw this mentioned in a Usenet Win10 group the other day.
There's a setting in file explorer to turn off some sync "feature" that does the advertising.
No idea what else it might do.
To: TomServo
I had one. My first computer.
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posted on
03/13/2017 6:29:06 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: george76
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posted on
03/13/2017 6:29:35 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: TomServo
A friend had one. Just ran Basic connected to a tv for a monitor, right?
To: george76
This isn’t a good way for MS to pull people from Firefox or Chrome.
To: george76
Turned mine off by removing ‘One Drive” from ‘programs and features’.
Very easy to do.
Drove me crazy for a while, was installed in an update.
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posted on
03/13/2017 6:32:01 PM PDT
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
To: george76
Spam - The final frontier.
The voyages of the OS Microsoft.
MS can stick that where no sun would dare shine.
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posted on
03/13/2017 6:33:10 PM PDT
by
meyer
(The Constitution says what it says, and it doesn't say what it doesn't say.)
To: TomServo
Yeah, I wasted my time on it PEEKing and POKEing video games.
No future in that... LOL!
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posted on
03/13/2017 6:34:05 PM PDT
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
To: markomalley
D’oh!! So easy to hit S instead of X on an iPad...
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posted on
03/13/2017 6:40:24 PM PDT
by
Ciaphas Cain
(The choice to be stupid is not a conviction I am obligated to respect.)
To: george76
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posted on
03/13/2017 6:41:18 PM PDT
by
max americana
(For the 9th time FIRED LIBERALS from our company at this election, and every election since 2008)
To: Pearls Before Swine
This isn’t a good way for MS to pull people from Firefox or Chrome. This regards File Explorer not Internet Explorer.
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posted on
03/13/2017 6:41:49 PM PDT
by
KevinB
(Barack Obama: The best example in history of the dangers of affirmative action!)
To: dayglored; george76
PING for advertising in Microsoft Windows 10 Explorer? Say it ain’t so. . .
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posted on
03/13/2017 6:41:53 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
To: Calvin Locke
Yup. Software delivered via cassette player.
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posted on
03/13/2017 6:42:19 PM PDT
by
TomServo
To: Secret Agent Man
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posted on
03/13/2017 6:42:32 PM PDT
by
TomServo
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