Windows 10 nagging users with Bing advertisements (push alerts)
10 or 15 years ago, this behaviour would universally be called adware and shunned, yet now Microsoft does it too?<p><i>In addition to the Windows 10 alert, Microsoft Edge has also gained a new full-screen prompt that advises users to restore the ‘recommended’ browser and set Bing as the default search engine.</i><p>...complete with Corporate Memphis[1]. That screenshot sums up just about everything I hate about "modern" software: the infantilising "we know what's best for you" language, the intrusive nature of it, and the bland so-inoffensive-it's-offensive art. The message it gives is "you are not a user, you are the product, now be a good obedient little sheeple and do as you're told." No wonder the Win10 upgrade was "free", and they tried to force it really, really hard.<p>My personal fuckings go out to everyone working there who didn't stand their ground and say NO when asked to implement this shit.<p>I'm saying this as someone who actually uses Bing, because I get sick of Google's search results censoring and CAPTCHA-hellban too. But I wasn't forced (or "recommended") to do so, and I'd rather use IE11 than Edge just due to the UI alone.<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27107820" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27107820</a>