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[–] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I seriously thought I must’ve accidentally clicked an icon or prompt while starting up that showed that full screen ad.

Intrusive, invasive and dystopian. I don’t even play CoD!

[–] CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dude same, first Roku started putting ads on the main menu and now Microsoft is pulling bullshit. Just another reminder that we don't actually own anything anymore

[–] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

You know! That’s what I was originally going to comment but wasn’t sure it’d make sense. Purchasing a product just means another way to sell to you nowadays. It’s ridiculous.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do the people working fore Microsoft even come up with this shit? Do they not play Xbox? How are they not infuriated with every idea like this that they come up with?

[–] BeardedGingerWonder 4 points 1 year ago

Ambitious exec promotion candidate has an idea, senior executive sees idea and sponsors it as they believe it will make them money, JIRA lands in dev backlog, devs moan about it, devs like having jobs, devs implement.