Windows is increasingly incorporating these web-style nudges every day. If you open the Start menu, you get animated ads; if you search in it you get popups pushing you to join Microsoft rewards [1]. What a distressing shift.
The ads and websearch in the windows menu are infuriating. I disable them ASAP. Although it doesn’t show ads, it’s also extremely annoying to paste a path to the file explorer and have it pop up a webpage if the path was wrong. There is not a single time on earth when that would be my desired result.
Except you don't have to. I don't know what I did, I'm not running any third party software, but my start menu does not have any tiles. It's just a list of apps installed on my system
Windows is increasingly incorporating these web-style nudges every day. If you open the Start menu, you get animated ads; if you search in it you get popups pushing you to join Microsoft rewards [1]. What a distressing shift.
1: https://www.windowsphoneinfo.com/threads/microsoft-rewards-p...