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   Tinker ☀️ (tinker@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 12-Oct-2025 10:46:48 JST Tinker ☀️

   • bsidesnova

   I just saw this on a laptop at the @bsidesnova conference...

   Ads.

   On the lockscreen.

   How. How do people live like this? Like seriously. Inundated by ads. I mean, not just the tracking and surveillance behind it... but blatant ads everywhere.

   They PAY microsoft to show them ads on their lockscreen.

   Remember adware? That would gum up your browsers in the early aughts? Like... that was considered malware at the time and removed by antivirus.

   Can you turn this off? Is this a third party widget or something?

   What....

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     AI6YR Ben (ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)'s status on Sunday, 12-Oct-2025 10:46:47 JST AI6YR Ben

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     • bsidesnova

     @tinker @bsidesnova LOL and ads when you click on the "Start" menu to try to find your apps to run, and ads in the application bar. it's absolutely asinine. (I run Linux desktops now, because of this... switched fully two and a half years ago with disgust because of all those ads)

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     Fritz Adalis (fritzadalis@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 12-Oct-2025 12:29:30 JST Fritz Adalis

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     • Cookiefiend
     • bsidesnova

     @tinker @LPerry2 @bsidesnova
     If you can, try to install Win11 IoT/LTSC Enterprise. It strips out most of the objectionable parts.

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     Cookiefiend (lperry2@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Oct-2025 12:29:31 JST Cookiefiend

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     • bsidesnova

     @tinker @bsidesnova For work reasons, I'm going to have to install Windows 11. Is this what I have to look forward to?

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     Tinker ☀️ (tinker@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 12-Oct-2025 12:29:31 JST Tinker ☀️

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     • Cookiefiend
     • bsidesnova

     @LPerry2 @bsidesnova - I dont know! Maybe its just for a free version of Windows. Is that a thing? Or whatever MS sells to consumers. Maybe if you get the Pro version, you dont get it?

     I honestly dont know...

     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) repeated this.
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     bbdd333 (bbdd333@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 12-Oct-2025 12:32:46 JST bbdd333

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     • Cookiefiend
     • bsidesnova

     @tinker @LPerry2 @bsidesnova Yes, there is a drop down selector in the lock screen settings that will let you hide this

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     da_667 (da_667@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 12-Oct-2025 12:51:51 JST da_667

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     • Cookiefiend
     • Fritz Adalis
     • bsidesnova

     @FritzAdalis @tinker @LPerry2 @bsidesnova I can confirm 11 IoT edition removes most of the odious shit you have to deal with on a W11 install

     • no bing search on the start menu
     • notifications are muted
     • from my experience, local accounts are still allowed
     • No windows store
     • No windows store apps
     • No stupid ass app recommendations
     • One drive nag on the taskbar is gone
     • Onenote spam is gone
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     Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊 (theogrin@chaosfem.tw)'s status on Sunday, 12-Oct-2025 13:24:41 JST Jennifer Kayla | Theogrin 🦊

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     • George Dinwiddie

     @gdinwiddie @tinker

     And in typical fashion, the company (Samsung) stated that they had no plans to unleash ads on their internet-connected refrigerators, before doing exactly that.

     This is not an ecosystem of trust.

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     George Dinwiddie (gdinwiddie@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Oct-2025 13:24:42 JST George Dinwiddie

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     • bsidesnova

     @tinker @bsidesnova Have you seen modern refrigerators? They put screens on them to show ads.

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     Tinker ☀️ (tinker@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 12-Oct-2025 13:24:42 JST Tinker ☀️

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     • George Dinwiddie

     @gdinwiddie - Are they free refrigerators?

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     George Dinwiddie (gdinwiddie@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Oct-2025 13:24:42 JST George Dinwiddie

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     @tinker No, quite expensive.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Oct-2025 15:46:39 JST Miakoda

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     @tinker @bsidesnova
     [cackles in Linux user]