Comment Re:The Price to Turn off Ads (Score 1) 82
Whatever. TFS, the summary, tells you how to turn it off. Nobody with an ounce of intelligence lives with ads in Windows 11.
That is until MS changes that in the next update. The setting might be moved to an obscure area or a Registry key setting. Given the history of how MS has pushed Windows 11, I think this is likely.
I have Windows 10 Pro and when Windows 11 came out, I had to opt out of an automatic upgrade once. Somewhere along the way, MS changed the behavior of Windows Update. Automatic updates used to be for security and critical updates. MS started adding "Feature Updates" that did things like install Edge as your primary browser. The only way to avoid it was to turn off automatic updates (if you had Pro).
Then MS changed the behavior of manual updates. It used to be "Check for Updates" showed you a list of available updates and allowed you to select which ones you wanted. No. "Check for Updates" now means "Install everything MS wants" without any options. Then you had to uninstall anything later (if that was possible). After stopping Windows 11 upgrade and selecting "Do not ask me again" to upgrade to 11 in a setting, the next major update removed that option. Popups and notifications every few days meant I had to use Registry settings and Group Policy to stop all the nagging. Later the nagging could only be stopped by removing programs and stopping certain services. Now there is a prominent "Upgrade to Windows 11" section when you open Windows Update.
But that wasn't enough for MS. The last minor update pushed an unavoidable popup menu on restart to upgrade to 11. And I had to decline twice and the option to decline was not obvious. "Stay on Windows 10" was on the left as tiny text (not underlined). On the right were two "buttons": Install and Restart now OR Download and Install in the background. After declining, there was another popup with the likes of "Are you sure?". Reminder: I paid for Windows Pro.
I don't put it past MS to make Ads as part of 11 by trickery of UI. Next update of 11 has 3 options: "Decline" in an obscure place and "Agree" to ads and "Read agreement and Agree" prominently displayed.