Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu

The first ads in the Windows 11 Start menu will look familiar.

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When will we see FTC to jump in?
- Set your country to Ireland and enjoy GDPR privileges. None of that crap makes it into the EU.
  
  Doesn't make it to Linux, either.
  
  How do you do this?
  
  How do you do this?
- For what? Android OEMs have been doing this for years with no problems
I guess this is why they started to block apps that modified the interface?
- Yes. This literally what everyone said was going to happen. It's bad enough they continue to enshitify Windows, it's even worse that they are so damn predictable about it.
And the wind whispered... Linux
- Do you have a few minutes to talk about our Lord and Saviour, Linus Torvalds?
That's why I started testing Fedora Linux a few weeks ago
- One of us! One of us!
  
  Welcome!
I don't keep up with Microsoft lore. Did they really have ads in the Windows 10 Start Menu and decided to remove it for Windows 11?
Lol

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