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by petepete 390 days ago
> The OS is helping the user find content that they may be looking for

If that's not an ad I don't know what is!

I hate it and won't use a computer that does it.

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Pray tell then, what do you do your computing on? I get those prompts for features the manufacturer thinks I might want to use (but don't) on my Android phones, my iPads, the YouTube app, Firefox, and pretty much everywhere else.
Fedora Workstation.

Yeah, it's unavoidable on phones with either Android or iOS without making huge compromises on things like banking and payments.

Finding relevant ads is a search and recommendation problem, but not all search and recommendations are done for ads. In this case there is a search over popular apps in the store as opposed to an search through an ad inventory.