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Oh Frick Go Back: GUI Tool to Removes Ads from Various Places
Around Windows 11
Author : ajdude
Score : 29 points
Date : 2024-05-02 16:29 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| tardismechanic wrote:
| I don't get it. Why is it called that?
| Phiwise_ wrote:
| I'd guess this:
| https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2046415-upgrade-button
| zachmu wrote:
| Microsoft cramming more and more ads in their OS could be the
| push we need to finally achieve the year of the Linux desktop
| lop wrote:
| If these tools didn't exist, more sane people would switch to
| Mac or (even better) to Linux... (crazy world ;- )
| observationist wrote:
| Good luck getting people to recognize that much of their
| frustration with computers is deliberate, and a consequence of
| software patents and the monopolistic games played by megacorps
| in order to suppress competition and ensure dependency. It's
| easier for people to learn to cope and put up with the small
| annoyances than to deal with a big disruption that pays off
| later, and Microsoft knows exactly where the limits are, and
| will push people for every tiny percent of exploitable
| territory that won't cause them to leave.
|
| Unless IP laws get overhauled, this is the way things will be -
| total surveillance, the user is the product, the customer is
| the megacorporations positioned to exploit adtech at scale.
| Infinite growth and endless passive income for the rich,
| everyone else gets to be frogs in some dystopian eternally-
| approaching-but-not-quite-boiling pot. Consumer rights and
| corporate limits in the context of modern technology bounded by
| fundamental civil liberties are the way to sanity. A lot of
| very wealthy people and their cadres of very influential
| cronies would lose wealth and influence if the system were to
| be repaired.
|
| So yeah, it's easier to just cope and let things more or less
| suck.
| rhplus wrote:
| Appears to be an exe. Any reason why not just a `.reg` file?
| fwip wrote:
| Well, it's a GUI tool. So that's part of it.
| autoexec wrote:
| I get why people want things like this, but it's pointless to try
| to fight against a user-hostile OS that forces updates on you
| whenever they feel like it since any one of those updates can
| undo anything you've changed and introduce much worse.
|
| Microsoft has already decided that they will collect as much of
| your private data as they can in order to turn their Windows OS
| into an advertising platform. If that bothers you the only real
| solution is to stop using Windows.
| ProllyInfamous wrote:
| >If that bothers you the only real solution is to stop using
| Windows.
|
| I don't know, Windows 7 Pro 64-bit is still a pretty great
| solution, personally.
| babypuncher wrote:
| There is lots of popular consumer software that no longer
| runs on Windows 7.
| RIMR wrote:
| Using a 15 year old OS that hasn't had a security update for
| over 4 years as your daily driver isn't something I would
| recommend anyone do. ESU ended over a year ago, so you're
| stuck on an abandoned OS even if you're willing to pay for
| updates.
|
| Apple has been keeping the user experience a priority in all
| their latest updates, and Linux desktops are more usable than
| they've ever been. There's absolutely no reason to use
| Windows 7 for anything important if Windows 11 is a
| dealbreaker.
|
| Microsoft isn't about to reverse course and make Windows good
| again, so if you've already decided not to use Windows 11,
| start the process of acclimating to a new OS now, rather than
| stagnating on a dead OS that is only going to get less safe
| to use moving forward.
|
| If budget is a concern, I promise you your Windows 7 PC will
| run Linux. If you are experiencing the sunken cost of all the
| Windows-exclusive software that you have already purchased,
| then pony up for a Windows 11 PC, because you're not going to
| survive on a EOL Windows OS for very long.
| RevEng wrote:
| You assume that's a reasonable option for most people. Plenty
| of people have software, hardware, or other requirements to use
| Windows. It sucks, but it's quite common.
|
| The enemy of good is perfect. Maybe we can't stop them spying
| or trying to force their way back in on every update, but we
| can fight back. If it's as simple as changing a few registry
| keys to disable ads, why wouldn't you just do it? "Stop using
| Windows or live with it" are not the only two options.
| RIMR wrote:
| I really can't think of any common Windows-only software. At
| least nothing that wouldn't run on Mac OS.
|
| Personally, I think that if the computer you use has software
| on it that is actively spying on everything you do, you
| should remove that software from your computer. If that
| software happens to be the OS, I think the best way to "fight
| back" is to not pay the company spying on you money for the
| next version, and find an alternative that respects your
| privacy.
| tbyehl wrote:
| I'm old enough to remember when Microsoft not forcing updates
| upon their users was considered an existential threat to
| humanity.
| bitwize wrote:
| Coming soon to Windows 11 update 24H2:
|
| "OFGB.exe has been blocked due to security and performance
| concerns..."
| jerf wrote:
| I'd give this at least even odds.
|
| Based on some ancient personal experience you can also bet that
| the EULA will be rewritten to forbid people to use Windows 11
| to develop this sort of workaround. Which is to say, if this is
| not a violation of the license today, it will be soon enough.
| everyone wrote:
| Windows 10 LTSC is the actual good version of Windows. Honestly
| it's one of my favourite OSes. Since MS don't sell it to regular
| people, it behooves one to pirate it.
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