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Windows 11's Weather app now displays more ads than before. But there is a workaround to hide ads on the Forecast page.

It’s raining ads in Windows 11. The Microsoft Weather app in the operating system now displays more ads.

You may recall that a year ago, Microsoft had actually removed the ads from the app, and it appeared that the company had finally listened to feedback from users. But the annoying banners are back, and there’s two of them now on the Forecast page. For those unaware, the old version of Microsoft Weather was a UWP app, but the company replaced it with an Edge WebView, which is a container that uses the Edge Engine. In other words, the Weather app is technically just a web wrapper for MSN.com/weather. You can test this yourself, just open the website in your browser and temporarily disable your ad blocker to take a look at the ads, now open the desktop app, and you can see that the same ads appear in the Weather app.

  • xavier666@lemm.eeEnglish
    22·
    5 months ago

    Microsoft: So, what are you going to do about it? Stop using Windows? Hah!

    • Prison Mike@links.hackliberty.orgEnglish
      61·
      5 months ago

      I stopped using it 20 years ago and have never had a need for it since. It sucked then and it still sucks now; I’ve even installed it a couple times in a VM for fun but always ended up deleting it after a few hours. I really don’t understand why someone would choose to tolerate such low quality software even for the most basic of tasks.

  • bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    17·
    5 months ago

    Is this the new technique because all these companies already completed enshitification? Briefly remove the things people hate in the hopes that it will draw them back, only to rug pull them again?

  • Bob@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    5 months ago

    its a dystopian world we live in, advertisements to just check the weather…

  • Railcar8095@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    4 months ago

    I had been using Linux for home and work for the past 10 years, dual booting for games mostly (do basically only to use steam).

    Recently I had to change jobs and was given a windows laptop. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw that the candy crush ad is still present on corporate devices. In a $3500 workstation from a fortune 50. What the hell.

    I managed to get a Mac instead. IT is still laughing about me for asking Linux instead

  • sunzu@kbin.run
    810·
    5 months ago

    If you want to know how windows behaves check out this app: https://safing.io/

    The amount of hard to explaining pinging that is going on will hurt your brain but you will notice that every time click start or search OR SETTINGS

    This bitch is furiously pinging Sundar Satya the creep lol

    Your choice people…

    Edit: apologies picked the wrong mascot!