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Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu
(www.theverge.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Ads were already there for years - for Facebook, TikTok, Candy Crush, and who knows what else.
I would say this is embarrassingly unprofessional, but the truth is this is just normal these days - normalized by Facebook and Android - and I'm just old and used to better software.
I switched to Linux the same year they appeared.