Windows 10 Anniversary Update stops Pro users from disabling annoying features and blocking ads - Polidicks

Is this a US-only thing or something? I've never gotten any sort of ads and I've had Win 10 for like a year now.

Im in the us and never had to deal with 90 percent of the stuff in this thread. I recall a year ago when i upgraded, i went to the settings app, turned off these things, and was never bothered even once. It honestly seems like people here are trying to find things to hate on windows 10. Its not perfect, but its not a godamn ad bot.

i've never modified any settings with registry edits or group policies modifiers or have I opened any .msc files or other weird things within windows to edit them and I have NEVER seen an ad in windows what's going on?

So the folks don't bother to open the settings app to uncheck the options and then when Windows does what is supposed to do they get mad and says "this is my push to Linux" Dang, I would like to see the same people trying to install the wifi drivers of a notebook on Linux :v:

[QUOTE=da space core;50801025]It honestly seems like people here are trying to find things to hate on windows 10. Its not perfect, but its not a godamn ad bot.[/QUOTE] That's what the author of the article is portraying these as he's known for attacking the operating system Regardless on whatever the viewpoint of the users, it would be great to have a lot more transparency from Microsoft about things. They have improved, but I still think that there's a lot of room for improvement. We've come to an age where it's not as easy at it used to be in maintaining a monopoly in operating systems With most linux systems avaliable and open source (Microsoft are doing a bit more FOSS projects, which is nice), I believe that that there needs to be a lot more in declaring what's going on, open for discussion with genuine responses from engineers or project managers (I actually get some good responses when I email the engineers directly about software they maintain, it's good stuff. Just wish it was a lot more open)

I considered doing a last-minute upgrade to Windows 10 on Thursday while the free upgrade offer was still open. Then I really thought about it. Eat shit, Microsoft, and stop trying to turn Windows into a service you can bill monthly for.

[QUOTE=Andre Gomes;50801066]Dang, I would like to see the same people trying to install the wifi drivers of a notebook on Linux :v:[/QUOTE] That's actually getting better, now that older Broadcom devices are dying out and newer Broadcom devices aren't such a humongous bitch to get rolling

What ads??

who'dathunkit. Microsoft is [I]trying[/I] to get people to switch to Linux and OS X.

I guess this means my upcoming computer upgrade will just be a Linux base, and then a Windows VM slapped on where it can't do any harm. Not going to be able to get rid of it fully, since I've managed to become a / [i]the[/i] windows maintainer for a few projects now.

if i actually took the time to kill the automatic updates in windows 10, do i have to worry about this update installing itself?

What do you people do to make windows spam you to death? I don't know what I'm doing but I'm not getting any notifications or ads or anything.

[QUOTE=Plaster;50802195]What do you people do to make windows spam you to death? I don't know what I'm doing but I'm not getting any notifications or ads or anything.[/QUOTE] I installed Windows 10. To be fair it doesn't happen *that* often, maybe once a day or so for Office until you remove it, but my points still stand. [editline]30th July 2016[/editline] Opt-out advertisement is still advertisement. Opt-in advertisement is completely different. Additionally, I have reddit gold but I left ads on because they're not intrusive. They don't just suddenly appear and annoy me during games.

I'm glad I installed the Windows 10 as a dual boot. I only use it if I have games that depend on it.

I have yet to see an ad or deal with any of this bullshit. hopefully they smarten the fuck up

[QUOTE=Darkwater124;50802199]I installed Windows 10. To be fair it doesn't happen *that* often, maybe once a day or so for Office until you remove it, but my points still stand. [editline]30th July 2016[/editline] Opt-out advertisement is still advertisement. Opt-in advertisement is completely different. Additionally, I have reddit gold but I left ads on because they're not intrusive. They don't just suddenly appear and annoy me during games.[/QUOTE] yeah ok but I too installed win10 but I'm getting nothing? This confuses me the most, the only thing I've saw once I've installed win10 were those default apps that nobody wants like news and shit, that's the only thing that I've changed. After that I just went on and used win10 just like every other windows version that I've had before.

[QUOTE=Plaster;50802382]yeah ok but I too installed win10 but I'm getting nothing? This confuses me the most, the only thing I've saw once I've installed win10 were those default apps that nobody wants like news and shit, that's the only thing that I've changed. After that I just went on and used win10 just like every other windows version that I've had before.[/QUOTE] You've never had a forced update, not even once? Weird

[QUOTE=Plaster;50802382]yeah ok but I too installed win10 but I'm getting nothing? This confuses me the most, the only thing I've saw once I've installed win10 were those default apps that nobody wants like news and shit, that's the only thing that I've changed. After that I just went on and used win10 just like every other windows version that I've had before.[/QUOTE] So I'm not the only one who just hasn't ever had forced updates or ads pop up or anything. Yay. On-topic: I'm a pretty big supporter of Windows 10 but if this affects RTM and isn't just an Insider limitation a lot if this is pretty bullshit. Let the power users do what they like, idiots.

[QUOTE=phygon;50802497]You've never had a forced update, not even once? Weird[/QUOTE] What does that have to do with ads?

[QUOTE=phygon;50802497]You've never had a forced update, not even once? Weird[/QUOTE] What do you mean with forced? As in the computer reboots by itself in the middle of something? I have win10 enterprise here on my main computer and it only updates on reboots and shutdowns, on the other hand my laptop has the normal win10 version and that asks when you want the update and if a program is running that prevents it from going to sleep it'll just skip and tell me that it couldn't update, but even then it usually just takes a time in the middle of the night and at that point it's simply running so I can seed my linux distros.

[QUOTE=Foda;50798622]you guys are seriously freaking out about the suggested app in the start menu in your free OS? and yet no one gives a shit when android or apple do this stuff. google literally makes all of their money via targeted advertising.[/QUOTE] You're making the mistake of assuming people are completely okay with that either. Either they're not okay with it, but there's no alternatives that provides a identical service when it comes to giving the user what they want, or [I]ignorance is bliss[/I].

[QUOTE=Foda;50798622]you guys are seriously freaking out about the suggested app in the start menu in your free OS? and yet no one gives a shit when android or apple do this stuff. google literally makes all of their money via targeted advertising.[/QUOTE] i don't see any ads on my free apple os or my free linux os (ubuntu's unity search excluded) google ads can be adblocked

[QUOTE=Mors Quaedam;50802629]i don't see any ads on my free apple os or my free linux os (ubuntu's unity search excluded) google ads can be adblocked[/QUOTE] To be fair OS X and iOS is not a free OS. The license is tied to the hardware legally speaking. But then again, neither is Win10, you paid for it at some point.

[QUOTE=Demache;50802786]To be fair OS X and iOS is not a free OS. The license is tied to the hardware legally speaking. [B]But then again, neither is Win10, you paid for it at some point.[/B][/QUOTE] Depends on who you ask, but that still doesn't change anything about how distasteful OS level advertising is.

[QUOTE=Lyokanthrope;50802538]So I'm not the only one who just hasn't ever had forced updates or ads pop up or anything.[/QUOTE] I've occasionally had it try to peddle Office when I forget to uninstall that app, but I've never once had it interrupt any fullscreen applications.

can a mod edit the title and remove the ads bit, because with that its simply untrue because there are no ads its already sensationalist as it is

[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;50803805]Enjoy not playing most video games on those systems[/QUOTE] If most videogames means most triple-A games then I'm fine with it. Even then one could just use Wine, [URL="https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?bIsQueue=false&bIsRejected=false&sClass=application&sTitle=Browse+Applications&sReturnTo=&iId=0&iItemsPerPage=25&iPage=1&iappCategoryOp0=11&sappCategoryData0=2&sOrderBy=appName&bAscending=true&iItemsPerPage=200"]which has quite a list of compatible games[/URL]. Also note that [URL="https://steamdb.info/linux/"]on Steam alone there's a ton of Linux supported games[/URL].

Lets see how things are if it actually goes live. You never know about last minute changes. I have automatic updates disabled either way. So I'm just going to wait a bit and see what happens. While it is not a good move to restrict any policy options for the pro version it seems to be blown way out of proportions, as any Windows10 news does.

[QUOTE=Alice3173;50792506]People have had issues with Ubuntu and privacy as well in the past. If you're set on trying Ubuntu though you should consider one of the Ubuntu-based alternatives. I don't know about the ones that are named similarly to Ubuntu (Xubuntu and I think there's one called Kubuntu or something like that, for example) but Mint is Ubuntu-based and respects your privacy a lot better. Though I can't speak for how well it would perform when installed outside a virtual machine. Mint has some lag issues for me in VirtualBox at times (especially when scrolling through folders with a bunch of files) but that could possibly be from it running in a virtual machine rather than being an issue with mint itself. There's also ones like Fedora which TheJoker mentioned earlier and Debian which are supposed to be pretty decent and user-friendly distros as well which you might consider giving a try.[/QUOTE] If you're concerned about privacy, don't use Ubuntu or a derivative. They have some sort of deal with Amazon, which they sell you ads in exchange for your personal data. Mint is not good because their security updates are not mandatory, they have an awful security and its based on Ubuntu (although there's a Debian based version, but it's still Mint). You should try Fedora/Korora, Debian, Arch based distros like Manjaro or Antergos. Ubuntu if you don't care about Canonical leaking your data and Amazon selling you ads. But not Mint because they have the weakest security.

Its really really easy to install plain Debian server/similar and a desktop environment. I whole-heartedly recommend Debian now that Jessie is the new stable.