You joke, but I attempted to set up a Windows partition back in January so I could play some games on Game Pass, and made it nearly a whole two hours before I wiped the partition and vowed never again.
There were ads on the login screen. And that was just the start! I haven’t seen so many ads on a desktop since the early 2000’s when I used to fix PCs infected with spyware for people.
Did you just rawdog the home version or something? You gotta use at least some protection man! LTSC Pro install, some debloat scripts… anything but a straight install.
Problem is, there are no good debloat scripts. It’s all written by amateurs who don’t know what they’re doing, messing up the system in subtle ways that then take ages to figure out.
Yep. I have to use Windows for work, and even pro version shows so many ads it’s crazy. I can’t even imagine how much they paid for this copy of professional OS for working workers, and it still shows fucking ads all the time. It’s crazy that nobody in the windows world thinks it’s outrageous.
You joke, but I attempted to set up a Windows partition back in January so I could play some games on Game Pass, and made it nearly a whole two hours before I wiped the partition and vowed never again.
There were ads on the login screen. And that was just the start! I haven’t seen so many ads on a desktop since the early 2000’s when I used to fix PCs infected with spyware for people.
At least back then the ads had naked girls!
Some tools for the forsaken:
https://privacy.sexy/ https://github.com/builtbybel/Bloatynosy/releases https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu
Not FOSS: https://winaero.com/download-winaero-tweaker/
Someone’s curated list I just found: https://github.com/TemporalAgent7/awesome-windows-privacy
Did you just rawdog the home version or something? You gotta use at least some protection man! LTSC Pro install, some debloat scripts… anything but a straight install.
Lord knows what you could have caught!
Problem is, there are no good debloat scripts. It’s all written by amateurs who don’t know what they’re doing, messing up the system in subtle ways that then take ages to figure out.
Privacy.sexy works great…
I’d say that the ctt winutil does a pretty good job. I’ve been running installs cleaned by it for a good year now without major issues
The icks is what I caught!
Yep. I have to use Windows for work, and even pro version shows so many ads it’s crazy. I can’t even imagine how much they paid for this copy of professional OS for working workers, and it still shows fucking ads all the time. It’s crazy that nobody in the windows world thinks it’s outrageous.
My gaming group all uses Windows, and they go to great lengths to downplay the enshitification.