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    Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our unshittified experience (sh.itjust.works)
    submitted 6 months ago by brbposting@sh.itjust.works to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    I can't believe a paid OS needs a tool like this. Here's a GUI tool called OFGB (Oh Frick Go Back) to remove all the ads in Windows 11. It's understandable if a free OS or app needs ad support, but this is just crazy github.com/xM4ddy/OFGB

    [Screenshot Of a GUI Tool To Removes Ads From Various Places Around Windows 11]

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    [–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 57 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    How the heck did those tools developers figure out how to remove those various ads in windows? Did they do it the hard way, fired up a debugger to reverse engineer how those ads were displayed? That takes some dedication. We in the Linux land have it easy because the source code is available to mess with.

    [–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 126 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    It's not difficult. Corporations won't put up with this shit and MS knows it, so there are (almost) always documented registry entries or GPO policies you can set to disable this crap.

    But you shouldn't fucking have to. Which is why I'm now on Tumbleweed instead of Windows for my daily driver.

    [–] lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 6 months ago

    Most likely this IMO, with all the driver and executable signing/integrity checks nowadays I doubt they can get away with patching the system files a la Windows XP style.

    [–] tuxrandom@kbin.social 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Couldn't M$ make corporations deal with it anyways? It's really not like they could just switch to Linux or Mac with their very specific BS piece of software of which every company has their own that runs on Windows only.

    [–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 29 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    They could try but anything over a medium size business likely has a specific contract with Microsoft and they probably have language preventing this kind of thing. I know my company does. And there would be a ton of pushback from any security org that knows what they are doing, since ads are a common vector for security incidents.

    Microsoft is already getting their money from the corpos, it's the 'freeloading' public they are trying to squeeze revenue from.

    [–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Microsoft is already getting their money from the corpos, it's the 'freeloading' public they are trying to squeeze revenue from.

    Yeah, those bums who only paid for the software once.

    [–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago

    If you saw an enterprise licensing agreement you'd know just how true this is. We pay for this shit over and over and over.

    [–] gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 2 points 6 months ago

    Pro, Enterprise and Education SKUs have less of these "features" enabled

    [–] UntitledQuitting@reddthat.com 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    This is the third reference to the tumbleweed distro I’ve read today. Sounds like I have a new VM to set up!

    [–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

    I think you'll like it! I sure do. Been on it about a month now, maybe 5 weeks. No complaints.

    [–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    Hell yeah brother!) tumbleweed ftw! P.S my top 3 distros is debian tumbleweed gentoo because of WIDE architecture support meaning you can launch it on almost ANY pc out there

    [–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago

    Great question!