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by AshamedCaptain 924 days ago
which I really doubt are serving through http(s), making this quite useless for that...
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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.
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.