Microsoft inserted ads in the folder, disgusting users to the point, official: experiment with features, accidentally pushed!

Yang Jing Dream Chen from The Temple of Oufei

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315 just exposed the advertising pop-up chaos, this side of Windows users were disgusted by Microsoft's riot operation.

A netizen who claimed to be a 30-year-old fan of Microsoft found that in the latest win11 beta, ads have reached into user folders.

It is also added in the commonly used explorer.

Just outrageous family members! He put this matter on the Internet, and already expected that netizens would be angry.

Sure enough, the comments section exploded!

Some people directly warn microsoft official warnings: don't make a fool of yourself! This uses a third-party manager.

Some people disdained to say that this matter is not new, as early as win10 to do so.

Taskbar, Start menu, browser, lock screen... Microsoft has put all the places where it can and can't put ads.

Netizens have blown up many times

A while ago, Some Windows 10 users found that there was an option in the Start menu that looked like a system update push.

Tap to see, good guy, the browser directly opened JD Shopping.

Win10 also has ads stored in the Onedrive cloud in Explorer.

The ads on the lock screen, Edge browser, and taskbar have also been complained about by netizens in the past decade.

Even before, Microsoft has been caught in a lot of turmoil due to a large number of user feedback that "the browser cannot close ads".

However, unlike the previous operations that Microsoft selectively ignored, this time the official response was particularly fast!

Internal experimental functions, and are not intended to be announced to the public.

This is a mistake!

Old Engineer at Microsoft: I've stepped on the pit before

In Windows, these ads are disguised as notifications and prompts, and the prompt function can be turned off by canceling the prompt function in the settings.

But even without ads, too many notifications and prompts are not a good design in themselves.

An old engineer from the Windows Vista era came out and broke the news that this design was too disturbing for users, and they had already stepped on a pit once.

It seems that a whole new generation of engineers and designers will have to step through the pit one more time to learn their lessons.

There has been a "Windows system generational spell" circulating on the Internet.

Historically, WinXP succeeded, Vista failed, Win7 succeeded, Win8 failed, and Win10 succeeded again.

Is this mysterious law, which is not recognized as explained, related to the repeated stepping on the pit after the development team changed blood?

Whether Win11 will eventually succeed or not is still inconclusive, but from the latest market share statistics of AdDuplex, it is still Windows 10 versions that account for more than 80% of the world PC market.

Bitter advertising pop-up window for a long time

Advertising is not only familiar to Microsoft.

More advanced, put their own products advertising, is also the way many big manufacturers choose.

iPhone users may often see advertising offers from Apple Music, Apple Fitness, and iCloud.

Like those video and audio applications, pop-up membership subscriptions are more common operations. Unless you give up the struggle to choose to subscribe, it will annoy you from time to time.

What makes more people suffer is those irrelevant and malicious advertisements.

Just like last night's CCTV 315 party, the phenomenon of "advertising links disguised as free WiFi" was exposed.

By inducing users to click "confirm", "connect", "open" and other buttons, induce users to download other APPS or push pop-up ads.

Once clicked, the user automatically downloaded and installed the app without any prompting.

What's more, these apps may be "invisible" and "transparent", and users can't detect it at all, and can only accept pop-up ads by head.

Older people are the hardest hit areas of this situation.

Some time ago, some netizens reported that their grandfather's mobile phone had "pop-up window cancer"——

An advertisement popped up in a matter of seconds, completely unable to operate normally. A factory reset won't work either, as it will be like that again in a few days.

This is also because when the elderly use mobile phones, they will be misled by various garbage Apps and advertisements, and if they are not careful, they will download and install them in the background.

Some apps call it "cleanup masters", but in fact, they make mobile phones more and more stuck.

Bitter advertising pop-up window for a long time, do you have any tricks to advertise?

Reference Links:

[1]https://twitter.com/flobo09/status/1502645866204704773

[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30675908

[3]https://www.163.com/dy/article/H1US4NIM05119JRD.html

[4]https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/15/22979251/microsoft-file-explorer-ads-windows-11-testing?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4

[5]https://www.ghacks.net/2022/03/14/microsoft-is-testing-file-explorer-ads-in-latest-windows-11-insider-build/