[tester756]

> In Windows, you pay money - you get ads and tracking.

Where do I have to click to get those ads?

[Miraste]

Off the top of my head, Windows has advertised or directly installed Edge (are you suuuuure you don't want to default it?), OneDrive (in file explorer, no less), Office 365, Bing (in the system search bar), Xbox something or other, Candy Crush, Teams, Skype, and probably several others that I'm forgetting.

[tester756]

I ran script that uninstalls a lot of those stuff years ago

Probably it was this

https://gist.github.com/matthewjberger/2f4295887d6cb5738fa34...

[zabzonk]

Quite - I have been using Windows since Windows 2.0 and I have never seen an ad - perhaps I am doing something wrong?

[sodality2]

You have never had Candy Crush-esque apps installed automatically?

[zabzonk]

I really don't know everything that is installed on my computer - do you on yours? I can say I have never seen the thing.

And anyway, surely that is a game, not an ad?

[sodality2]

Which is paid to be preinstalled and put in your face every time you open the start menu.

I'd go as far to say it is adware.

[zabzonk]

Me: Opens Start Menu (which, frankly, I don't normally use) - doesn't see it.

[sodality2]

Standard windows, or LTSC?

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Candy+Crush+Soda+Saga+windows+10+b...

[GordonS]

If, like me, you're using Enterprise edition, you'll never see any of these ads.