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I have never seen an ad in the Windows start area, except for the pre-installed stuff you can just uninstall. I'm guessing that you opted-in to something by mistake.
Are you sure you can't just turn them off?
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I more or less have.....
PI-Hole all the way for me, and if that's not enough, once a DNS goes through Pi-Hole, it gets passed through a custom Bind-9 instance which strips out anything Pi-Hole didn't catch, before handing off to my ISP's DNS.
On my router (I run a custom PFSense install) I have port blocking set up, so that internal machines and apps running on them cannot attempt to bypass my DNS set-up with their own, and as a result I see practically NO advertising what so ever, nor do any of their trackers get through either.
Even my next door neighbour was impressed, when she popped in a few weeks ago and asked if she could use my connection, because hers and gone off, and her ISP only had internet based help for that kind of thing, she couldn't believe how there was no ad's, no tracking on anything using my connection.
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Chanting:
Article! Article! …
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We'll see 
It's not terribly difficult though.
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Windows is a toy. It has always been a toy. It was built by children (just look at the APIs!), who grew up to be assholes.
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Owen, why don't you tell us how you really feel.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I use StarDock's Start-10 tool for my Windows 10 installations. No AdWare or anything like that. However, I don't know about Windows 11 since I haven't installed it yet.
Nonetheless, I understand where you are coming from. I play a lot of Solitaire to cool my mind down from software development and to have to pay to get rid of the incessant ads is something I will not do.
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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I have a Java version of Solitaire that I could share.
Of course, the problem is… you would have to install Java!
I should probably port it to powershell…
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You can disable Bing search FYI.
Do a google search for it. Win10 & Win11 have possible different reg keys for it.
Makes life a lot better.
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You really think that because you exert a measurable influence in the Microsoft development ecosystem they're going to listen to you?
Chris, I'm shocked I tell you, shocked. I didn't think you Aussies were that gullible.
Software Zen: delete this;
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The more I hear and experience these things, the more I'm leaning toward Linux. Enough is enough already.
Cheers,
Johann
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How many apples grow in a tree?
All of them. Yeah, it's a dad joke.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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How do you stop an elephant charging?
Take away it's credit card
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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That's amazing "hidden answer technology". 
Reminds me of those old Yes & Know (invisible ink) game books [^] -- it was our computer games in the late 70s.
Hadn't thought of those in a long time.
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"By yourself enjoyment". Hmmm ... they didn't think that one through ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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How many famous men were born in Illinois?
None, only little babies are born in Illinois.
modified 16-Jun-22 11:40am.
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Depending on the level of your general knowledge, the answer is either "all of them" or "none of them".
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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"Should we update the list of what can be classified, it already contains 'plants the their habitats', so just extended to include general native life would make sense?"
"nah, I want a funny loophole headline"
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The same holds true in Canada. There's a theory that all the weirdos ended up on the Left coast because they never fit in where they were, so they kept migrating westward until they could go no farther. 
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Greg Utas wrote: they kept migrating westward until they could go no farther.
Only because they aren't lemming-like enough.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Judge: "Could a lemming be considered a fish?"
Lemming: *Jumps off a cliff into the water*
Judge: "Well, well, well, interesting..."
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Greg Utas wrote: all the weirdos ended up on the Left coast
What about Trudeau?
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