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

The software maker will use the Recommended section of the Start menu, which usually shows file recommendations, to suggest apps from the Microsoft Store.

  • @[email protected]English
    11•8 months ago

    Go into app or play store and sort by most downloaded. They’re pretty exclusively a list of games and apps that you find advertised.

    I’m my circle, people are seeming to become more willing to admit they got something from an ad. I feel like there used to be shame behind it

    The most frequent lately has been women buying their clothes from Instagram ads. The argument they have made is that they see SO MANY ads, the one they choose to spend money on was because they wanted it and that apparently is a solid vetting process. But this is people in my sphere, I dunno if it’s a thing.

    I used a Google TV stick and for sick of the bullshit ads and switched to a simple launcher. In reddit and lemmy threads, there are always highly up voted people who are happy to get “popular recommendations”.

    The generality, I feel like, is people are busy living their lives, don’t want to research and learn about everything in their life, and just go with what they see.

    • BubbleMonkeyEnglish
      17•8 months ago

      It’s gotten really difficult to research products, speaking as someone who does a lot of it, so I don’t think it’s about not wanting to do it.

      Go look for something like a good dehumidifier and it’s all seo-optimized bullshit barely hiding that it’s advertisements for cheap Chinese junk on Amazon. And nearly every link is like that. For pages upon pages worth of results.

      It’s so so difficult to judge what’s actually legit info and what isn’t. So I don’t blame people for asking other humans for what worked for them. You almost kinda have to unless you know of good legit review sites for every product you might want or need.

    • no bananaEnglish
      5•8 months ago

      Tbh instagram is the only place I click all the ads. All because they’re so god damned weird.

      I never buy anything though.