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Windows 11 is now an ad platform--this is why we're here (www.ghacks.net)

submitted 4 months ago by MHSJenkins@infosec.pub to c/foss@beehaw.org

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The writing is on the wall--I suspect the next Windows OS will be a subscription service. Gather your ISOs while ye may.

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[–] MHSJenkins@infosec.pub 16 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I gotta admit you had me in the first half . . .

[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Haha. Are you telling me that we all don't mutually love these attempts to personalize advertisements? There's nothing better than knowing our personal information is being used for our benefit this way. Look at films like Blade Runner. I can't wait to have bright fluorescent ads on every corner and open space.

Without these things, how else am I going to know which medication I should be insisting my doctor prescribe me? And clearly this insurance company with the funny ad is totally going to be there on my side when something happens. That's why they made the commercial, duh. So I would absolutely be certain I can trust them to quickly and fully process a claim.

There's nothing cozier than the snug embrace of consumerism, where we find a peculiar warmth, as if cocooned in a comforter spun from the very fibers of advertising's allure.

[–] WaterLizard@beehaw.org 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

The scary thing is, this is legit how the marketing course I had to take taught the concepts. The whole course was from the perspective that people are too dumb or overburdened to make decisions on what products they should buy, so marketing and ads are our savior to take that oh so hard critical thinking away. I wish I was kidding, but everything about that class felt like "how can we abuse psychology to force people to consume."

[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

😭😭😭

[–] aStonedSanta@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

This could work. If we had serious serious consequences for false advertising and lying in media lol so never.

[–] MHSJenkins@infosec.pub 2 points 4 months ago

Once again we bathe in the light of the Omnissiah!

[–] neosheo@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 months ago

It gets more confusing when you read their user name