[newcool1230]

I meaning Microsoft is trying to introduce ads into the file explorer and search centers...

[jay_kyburz]

What do you mean trying to? Look at this shit.

https://imgur.com/a/d0jq4s1

Every time you stamp it out they find a way to sneak it back in.

[Erratic6576]

If that was my macOS start menu, I’d smash my display with anything I had at hand

[PrimeMcFly]

It's pretty damn atrocious. I run a different startmenu and taskbar, but it still bugs me.

I still prefer Windows with ads modified to hide those ads over MacOS though.

[shiroiuma]

I don't see the problem here. They're adding value to their OS this way, value that will result in greater profits and therefore shareholder value. My MS stock is doing great thanks to moves like this!

If you don't like it, you don't have to use MS products.

[AshamedCaptain]

which I really doubt are serving through http(s), making this quite useless for that...

[hnlmorg]

Why do you doubt that? Even Microsoft, with all their money and NIH syndrome, are unlikely to invent a brand new application protocol just to serve ads.

[popcalc]

I think the parent is insinuating that Microsoft would just hard bake ads directly into the OS through updates? I'm not really sure though.