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The reason varies by the decade. Microsoft has a tendency to fix one thing, then break another.

That said, a distaste for advertising goes beyond OCD. Advertisers frequently have questionable ethics, ranging from intruding upon people's privacy (in the many senses of the word) to manipulating people. It is simply something that many of us would rather do without.



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