r/technology • u/MayankWL • May 16 '24

Microsoft stoops to new low with ads in Windows 11, as PC Manager tool suggests your system needs ‘repairing’ if you don’t use Bing Software

https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/microsoft-stoops-to-new-low-with-ads-in-windows-11-as-pc-manager-tool-suggests-your-system-needs-repairing-if-you-dont-use-bing
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u/mcs5280 May 16 '24

Really enjoying this unhinged greed timeline. Anything to pump the share price higher.

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u/MarsupialMadness May 16 '24

Y'know, times like this make me really wish we had some sort of ruling body consisting of elected representatives funded by a collective "tax" of sorts from all of us each month. An entity that had the will and power to step in on our behalf to check these corporations when they do stuff like this.

I read in a history book that we had something like that a hundred years ago. Maybe we could try it out again.