Game ad notification on Windows...

soyagi@yiffit.net to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world – 573 points –

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3405817

Have to use Windows for work (I've asked), the ads have been getting worse and worse on my work laptop. Today got a game ad notification... That's clearly too far, right? Like I have to clear notifications, so I have to see it

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Could explain this to me as if I was 5. I have no idea what I am supposed to mildly infuriated about

Unsolicited advertising in a paid operating system.

Almost as infuriating as ads coming over the Life Alert system.

You know those ads with the old lady like “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!”. Little radio thing you wear around your neck to act as emergency channel to contact someone if you’re stuck somewhere.

Well, somebody decided old people with a comm device around their neck would make a great marketing segment for targeted ads. Through the fucking safety device.