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by cillian64
4130 days ago
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It's hardly the only area where a paid-for experience includes obviously unwanted advertising. Further, I don't see that consumers have much choice if they don't want to reinstall a fresh OS -- every major brand of PC I know of includes similar bloat. Also remember laptops don't come with a nice fresh Windows CD you can install from -- they come with a branded recovery disc (or partition) which "recovers" it to factory condition. |
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True, but we shouldn't pretend that this isn't a product of very recent history. When cable television channels started running ads, and when movie theaters began running commercials before the feature, it was really shocking to people. Most were enraged at the time.
The Overton Window has changed us.