"the company claims to be working on reducing the frequency of these interruptions"
, they're not even confident enough to call them ads anymore, just *interruptions*...
Translation: "They're not listening to my specific complaints. I've only posted them on Slashdot, but surely my opinions are shared by the majority."
There have been a few threads around various forums on the Internet, that I may or may not have participated in, that make me believe that the sample size I gathered was sufficient.
The copilot annoying cursor thing in Microsoft Word, could have been avoided if they simply thought about user agency and put in a ticky box in the settings that a user could uncheck if they didn't want that feature, but they didn't, and I had to work with a bunch of people to find a solution, that was both in meatspace and over the Internet, so perhaps a better way to rephrase it was, me and about 10 other people got annoyed at the copilot in Microsoft Word.
There is a feedback hub in Windows that you could fill out, and whenever I point someone towards it the answer is usually "why bother, they don't read it anyway?", thus my consensus.
As long as we're going to reinvent the wheel again, we might as well try making it round this time. - Mike Dennison