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I don’t even know what people are referring to exactly when they say Windows is full of ads. Windows 11 is my main OS, it’s the basic Home edition.

The only ads I see are when I mistype in the start menu, and get some web search results including ads, just like when I google something.

Inline web search results is a crappy feature to me, but it didn’t bother me enough to go regedit mode and disable it. It only appears when the computer search can’t find anything, it kinds of fall back on web search.

It seems the most outraged people are those who never use Windows and rage at the fact that it’s still a popular desktop OS.

Or maybe I’m just lucky and I don’t get the horrible in your face ads everywhere, for some reason.

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What bothers me is not that it displays web results but that it forces Bing results and forces Edge to open said links despite it not being the default system wide web browser.

Now that sucka.

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Yeah it’s even embarrassing for Microsoft, having to lure people into using edge. That may be the raison d’être of these inline web search results.

It’s a crappy feature anyway, I never use it. It doesn’t get in my way so it’s not a big deal to me. In any case if that’s all there is to this ad thing, the drama around it is surprising to me.