Annoyed by Microsoft this time. Not content with making a huge amount of money out of their admittedly good value for money products, with making more by peddling assorted rubbish on their News channel and still more by selling advertising through their Edge browser, they have now started exploiting a channel hitherto reserved for system notifications. About, for example, the workings of one's virus checker. The thing you get at by clicking bottom right on your screen, as in the snap above.
Advertisers have now been allowed to tap into this notification channel, which means that several times a day now, I am distracted by having to close down some unwanted advertisement.
And the only way I know to turn them off is to turn off the Internet connection, which is a different sort of nuisance. But perhaps I will start doing that.
A pity that so many rich corporations and so many rich people are so greedy for more.
PS: and I might add that the advertisements are slowly getting louder in the once clean gmail from Google. I did once read of a pay not to have advertisements option, so perhaps I need to look into whether such a thing exists - as I would be quite content to pay not to have advertisements. From where I associate to the neighbour who, irritated by the row made by his chimes, wanted to pay the ice cream van man not to ply his trade in our road - but who found that she couldn't afford it. He was doing too well out of us.
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