You Need a THIRD PARTY Tool to Remove All These WINDOWS Ads
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- Опубликовано: 25 июл 2024
- Today we look at a new third party tool to help bring sanity back to Windows. We also look at four reasons I like Linux better than Windows.
#windows #linux #switchedtolinux
github.com/xM4ddy/OFGB
00:00 - Intro
00:59 - What and Where Are These "Ads"
04:50 - Turning Off the Ads
06:15 - OFGB - Third Party Tool
08:30 - The Real Problem With Windows
13:40 - Why Switching to Linux Is Better
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the irony of ads in a OS you have to pay for while the free alternative doesn't have any
Nothing in life is free. "Linux is only free if your time has no value." Now, Linux is a LOT better than it used to be, but I still occasionally find myself pulling my hair out trying to get something stupid simple to work...much more often than I would have on Windows. However, it's still better than the OS user being Microsoft's product.
Daily driving Linux since July 1st 2021, I can never imagine going back to Windows it's now like a distant memory.
Yep, you stated reasons why I switched to linux mint like microsoft accounts and the overall feeling of no control I got from microsoft.
This is my machine with my own software now.
I use Linux for digital audio production (because of software, drivers and dedicated hardware) and at times for some gaming, but have been using Linux for everything else for about 15 years now, and before that used FreeBSD for that for over a decade (which I still use to run some public services). For many years that involved compiling and manually configuring window manages, and once available both gnome and kde.
Any media player device, router, etc, in my house runs some form of linux, all with firmware managed by me, not some manufacturor, but then.. in the 2000s, building thin client desktops based on Linux and FreeBSD was an important part of my job, things have become so much easier nowadays.. also a lot bigger tho. Imagine booting a minimal qt based desktop from a whopping 120 megabyte flash drive, including a local voip client, and X and rdp and later vnc based access to applications running on some remote server, a lot like todays VDI environments.
2:35 Windows does everything possible to keep you on EDGE... 🤣🤣🤣🤣 It's a Joke right?
I use Linux Mint on my old Macbook Air
I will tell you where they will put them because they already tried it and done it back in the 95 era. An ad, before you can run anything in your windows, you have the watch. You couldn't skip, you can go around, you can do nothing. You had to watch the video.
Is it going to be like clockwork orange, except with ads?
Marketers have ruined the English word, notification.
I hate to say it but overall I agree. Anytime a person tells me he or she is in marketing I get up right then and walk away from the conversation before I end up saying something that would put him or her in his or her place
The devs really need to separate the solicitations from the actual notifications then.
@@Vicorcivius they're not going to do that because they know if they can slip in their ads via the notifications software engines built into the Telemetry engine that is built into the windows kernel, there is no blocking or avoiding their ads that they make money off of
Look all of you consider over there and pretend like each version of Windows or each year you get smarter and smarter and you think you're smart and clever enough to avoid all this nonsense with Windows when in the end all this mental gymnastics doesn't get you anywhere reasonable
Just stop wasting your energy efforts in time you only have one life, and start spending it learning how to use an operating system world that actually doesn't get in your way, that doesn't violate your privacy, that actually respects the fact that your computer is supposed to be your computer, and start getting things done and get on with your lives.
Stop wasting your time trying to beat a game that will always cheat no matter what. Why don't you go ahead and just start giving all your paycheck to the casino is while you're at it and never have a life and become a homeless bum on the streets
I switched to Mint last year for good, and I haven't regretted it at all. I run games (Steam, GOG - not the latest ones though), watching movies and TV shows, run Stable Diffusion (Automatic1111) ocassionally - just for hobby, reading books and comics, programming in Python, and editing Libreoffice docs. Never ever wanted to go back to Windows. Would like to run a heavily modded Skyrim - not brave enough to start :). I just wish that I can remove Windows from my workplace laptop too...
Just installed OFGB, thanks. Will have to get into Linux.
I've 100% switched to Linux, again. I just can't stand how corrupt MS is. I'm so done with it. Even for college, I'm using Libre Office instead of MS Office 365. So far, there have been zero issues because I save as docx and I downloaded and installed Time New Roman font. For gaming I installed Steam and am using Proton in Steam. It's so easy. I don't play games that require the use of the anti-cheat programs (not because they do, but because I just don't enjoy those types of games). Those could be an issue if you play on Linux. They can outright ban you (because the anti-cheat functionality doesn't always work properly in Linux) and you could lose your Steam account). Do your research on that if you play games thru Steam that use anti-cheats.
steam is drm and anti consumer though, emulation isnt ideal either since it shows they arent taking linux serious. it has to be native support if they are really serious about linux gaming.
@@Ralphunreal dota2, cs is native linux, but other games are not
Then why are you playing a game that wrongfully discriminate against a free and open sourced OS world?
Why...when there are plenty of other games out there they don't do that nonsense and are just as fun to play...that don't require E.A.C tech just to run.
Bot to subtract from the countless privacy invasions, but to me, the ads and notifications are in fact the biggest problem of Windows these days.
As someone with ADHD, I get easily sidetracked when doing doing tasks on my PC without any ads or notifications already, having all these "suggestions" and banners and notifications and useless information ("weather and news" widget), as well as moving stuff like the Windows 10 live tiles is absolutely CATASTROPHIC to my productivity!
To me, those things are not merely a nuisance, they're an ABSOLUTE NIGHTMARE! My brain isn't wired to ignore distractions, my brain is wired to go be on high alert and immediately examine anything that is moving (/flashing/animated) or ever so slightly different from how it was before. And Windows has insanely many distractions these days, I legitimately cannot stay focused on my task(s) with all that! It's really painful and frustrating!
Linux by comparison is pure serenity once everything is setup. There no distractions pushed by the operating system! 😌
That is a valid point that I have not heard of, but yes, I totally hate the distractions as well.
We were so worried about zero day bug and y2k bug. Guess what MS is the real villian in the end. Well I have a PC in my printing lab running Win 11 23H2 and Chris Titus tool to customise windows for better performance. Looking like Titus will have some hardwork to tackle the ads in windows 11 24H3/24H4. Well it's time for me to go completely offline and remove Wi-Fi network from my work system.
Ads aren't the biggest problem with Windows. The Copilot + AI Windows Recall is SPYWARE. It screencaps every 3 seconds. It already has a keylogger. I can't wait till I switch my PC to Linux. I'm trying to decide between Garuda, Nobara or Linux Mint.
These are the specs for my system...
GTX 960m, 2.6ghz processor with turbo to 3.5ghz, 32gb ram.
Q: Should I use Linux or Windows
A: Do you want to get your tasks done on your OS, or do want your OS to tell you what tasks you should do instead?
Do you want to customize your OS to suit your habits, or do you want to adapt your habits to suit the OS?
Do you want to own your computer, or look for permission to use your computer¹ and change the OS/Hardware², like a child begging their their parents to let them play Fortnite?
Do you *learn* the ins and outs of your OS *once and be good to go for life,* or do you want to _re-learn how find and change even some basic settings after every major update?_
And Do you want the experience *for free,* or do you want to _pay up to 199$/259€ or potentially soon a monthly subscription_ for it?
It's a tough decision, it really is!
¹referring to the fact you need to set a "usage time" to prevent Windows from automatically restarting to install updates in the midst of you doing work on "your" PC (and they STILL (try to) force reboots during that time if they deem you delayed an update for too long!)
²referring to user settings being reset and registry hacks/workarounds being intentionally broken upon updates and hardware changes requiring you to re-activate your license or buy a new one, if Microsoft deems it not the same computer anymore.
Well put and I could not agree more with every single thing you stated. I am screenshotting your comment as mental notes in case some numbskull which I still encounter plenty of them online, wants to argue why Windows makes more sense than using Linux Mint Cinnamon. Cheers
I rather use mac if I need something than windows. As a web ui ux designer, most use macs anyways so photoshop,etc are available on mac. Everything else is on linux as my main pc.
Linux Mint Cinnamon has highly incredible security compared to Mac according to Google Search analysis most people from Windows are switching to Linux Mint Cinnamon for the aesthetic and modern design Linux Mint Cinnamon is STILL a lightweight desktop environment and a lot more people are trying to put it on their laptops other than Windows 11 that's forcing AI down people's throat Linux is eventually banning Artificial Intelligence on their system especially products provided by Microsoft.
Can having a dual-boot system with Linux and Microsoft on different Partitions get around Microsoft's excessive data collection? There are some programs that I need which do not have any Linux versions. What is the status of running AI and LLMs locally on Linux?
@MichaelDustter Yes, that may be the way to go. The Linux Drive would probably have to be external, in my case. Not sure how much that would affect Software Program performance, and read/write speeds.
@MichaelDustter @MichaelDustter I have a Laptop, USB Powered Hub, and available SATA SSD in an external enclosure. Not sure if there is NVMe Slot or not. I did use Linux long ago in a Tower PC, but my various Music Programs wouldn't run well enough on Wine, so I switched back to Windows. Maybe things have changed.
As I watch this video, my ad blocker is blocking attempted intrusions, which itself is an intrusion. I've watched about half and blocked 4 intrusions.
Our free will is being stolen from us, justified using Capitalist POV.
Microsoft has become more and more abusive over the last couple decades. For me, they have finally crossed the threshold with their ad delivery on steroids and sleight-of-hand tactics.
I am eager to begin my Linux environment at home.
The only application from the Windows world I would have liked is Nikon NX Studio and that runs in Wine on Linux.
I will have far more control over my computers and I will have less wasted time due to forced distraction.
@MichaelDustter Thanks, I'll take a look.
Most Windows users are switching to Linux Mint Cinnamon I am still skeptical but thinking about it maybe after Windows 10 End of Life instead of transitioning to Windows 11.
@@TechnoMinded-qp5in wait for July. They will release mint v22 wilma.
Capitalism doesn't have a damn thing to do with trying to shove ads down your throat. Proof of that equals the Nazis or spewing all sorts of AD propaganda trying to build themselves up as a good guys of the world who in reality we're just trying to kill any other race especially the Jews
You need a clue..get one
@@TechnoMinded-qp5in Definitely at least try. If you're going to have to learn some new stuff anyway, may as well try something that'll offer you choice and freedom.
When will MS block this app like they blocked the other apps to stop you from customizing the UI?
Underscoring the fact Linux is the best current option to escape distracting forced ads.
@MichaelDustter You experience reinforces my objective to vacate windows/google in favor of Linux and apps I have more control of without fear of capitalist revenge if I don't spend money on them. I am in Win10 now already have a new machine designed, and ready to build. Linux will be my new OS for that nice new computer.
I've have some experience having loaded old PCs with it. I played with Raspberry Pi's with Linux installed. I will relish my move to Linux as an act of rebellion and an act of independence against the ad, capitalist driven outfits as Google or Microsoft.
Difficult to bring sanity to Windows. Microsoft has Apple and Google envy.
which is weird that they copy apple since they are the market leader.
with every update you will need to launch the debloat app. It will be a cat and mouse game MS will try to block the devs with each iteration
Will adding two and possibly finishing your fact to Bass point, while I deeply appreciate good people like Chris Titus Tech who have provided decrapifier and debloat scripts for Windows for many years now, in the end it is a pointless rat race of cat and mouse game pointless Tugger War
Why?
It is because the windows Telemetry engine that is built into the windows core AKA kernel as well as the updates engine built into the same place the windows kernel will always in the end undo all the good one has done to get back what little control he or she had left over his or her own PC involving Windows 10 and 11 arguably Windows 8 as well
And until anyone besides a Microsoft operating system software developer gets editing access to the windows kernel, this will never change and it is pointless. The only real resolution the only way to beat a game that always cheats is to stop playing the damn game and switch to Linux
@@motoryzen 100%, the best thing to do is not to play the cat and mouse game and switch to Linux but casuals and gamers won't switch so easily unfortunately.
The ads are one thing, the garbage start menu and UI being worse than 10, and support drop off 10 is the real reason to switch. Also, Linux is actually usable now, which previously it wasn't. You basically get a Windows 7 experience that has updates.
Linux Mint Cinnamon has been a viable Windows replacement for easily 7 years now
Just wondering if this guy did a video on choosing a email service?
I have not. I use my own servers at Linode for email.
buen video saludos desde argentina
Windows is putting bit locker encryption on W11 home PC's, it's even on my W10 pro Desktop but it's turned off.
Why can't they just hurry up and make the Windows OS, the NT Kernel, and the run times open source so they can move on to focusing on subscriptions and online services such as Office 365, Gamepass, Minecraft, Xbox, Bing, One Drive, Azure, Skype, etc.?
Yep. They aren't making much of their money from selling the OSs anymore, they should just open source it and dump the maintenance on someone else. Then stuff like the ReactOS people can do with it what they will, and the endless cycle of terrible OSs from MS can finally be over. If making it a decent experience is no longer worth anything to them, they may as well stop putting their resources into the thing, and turn it over to people who can make better use of it than MS are.
@@katanah3195 I wonder if Recall has something to do with why they've not done it yet. People don't want it and it's a security nightmare. I wonder if they plan to push it for sucking up data and worry about people being able to smack their hands and tell them no, even if they don't use the functionality of it. Either way, I'm eying Linux for my next PC over that crap.
When W10 support ends I`m keeping a pc with W11 for games video/DAW with no personal stuff and a few Linux based micro pcs plus a W11 laptop. Also will de-Google where possible. Not chasing endless temporary fixes to keep W11 usable. All change if Adobe makes for Linux.
Had like 10 ads while watching this video. 😑
Rumble and Odysee are available.
Windows is like your parents:
Constantly nagging you and suggesting stuff to you without your consent.
Linux is like living alone:
You - yes, YOU - have the freedom to do whatever you want in a cozy environment without any nagging.
You're welcome!😉
And, that explains the parallel phenomena of people my age and shockingly young kids being stereotypical groups who use Linux because it's a pathological (but justified) control thing...
Im at the point of installing Linux and getting a virtual machine to run windows xp pro so i can play my older games and just not have to deal with this anymore..
Older games will likely run fine on Wine / Proton. You might check their databases before the XP install...unless you just want some XP anyway.
You don't have to install Windows XP or Vista to run your much older games from decades ago. Wine as well as Lutris can handle them
Have you seen the latest interesting "feature" they will provide with the new NPU? AI copilot+ PCs, scary. Scares George Orwell real good.
Yep. Will cover it later this week.
This is nothing compared to "recall".
Diagnostic? A successful person will not die agnostic.
You CAN block telemetry, but you must give up Windows Update if you want it to stick.
There is no blocking Windows telemetry. Because it is built into the windows core AKA kernel which you do not have editing access to. You can tickle on tick disabled or unable whatever little graphical user interface buttons you want that Microsoft provides to make you get the illusion that you have control but in the end facts don't care about your feelings
@@motoryzen Hi! You must be new to Windows. There is a special file in System32\Drivers\etc called “hosts”. You can use it to block or redirect access to certain domains.
@MichaelDustter This blocks all listed DNS requests. I’m not aware of any telemetry using direct IP connections.
Windows shills continue to support the OS no matter how crappy it's become.
Ed Bott says it's all the Windows Users' fault because they don't understand Microsoft.
Mary JO Foley says it's all the Windows Users' fault because they don't understand Microsoft.
Paul Thurrott says it's all the Windows Users' fault because they don't understand Microsoft.
Thanks for the info and video on the OFGB and windows buffoonery
The only time I want MS Windows is when I want to play the old games that I BOUGHT. It is possible to dual-boot and deny that MS Windows install internet access, which bloody well stops the data collection and the unwanted updates that trigger unwanted changes. When I do want internet access, Linux Mint is steady and dependable.
Ah this is 2024..not lre 2016 or 2017
Every single much older game , I'm talking dating back to dos days, works one way or another and I'm not even talking virtual machine in the Linux World these days
@@motoryzen I have bad news - the modern methods of mounting the mixed data and music disk that is War Craft II leads to two mount points, which means that DOS Box will no longer play War Craft II. It really did work in the past, but this changed for me about two Mint upgrades back. The early, decluttered version of Windows 10 does not have that problem.
Linux Shows Again That is like Fresh Air
I have not seen a single ad on any of my Win11 devices. Is there a difference between home and Pro that might be the reason?
Do you have Widgets? did it prompt you to use One Drive? Do you see Apps like Spotify, Adobe etc? Do you get notifications to buy their computers, buy Office 365, Make Edge your default Browser, have you opened MS Edge? Do you see the adds Lmao I think you may need a new pair of glasses. Just to mention a few. Don't worry, there is much more coming.
Oh dear telemetry, how I know that you're there, even though I can't see you...Both M$ft and crapple's business models is soon going to end...
I've been using Linux for many years. Only issue I have with it is hibernate crashes my laptop.
Do you have a swap partition or swapfile?
@@bhargavjitbhuyan9394 Yes. Could that cause the issue? I also boot Linux on my external SSD.
@@DRIVING_ME_CRAZY my question was which one do you have? Try reformatting it. Did you make changes in the fstab?
@@bhargavjitbhuyan9394 I just did a fresh install. I didn't enable swap, so I'll test it later.
@@bhargavjitbhuyan9394 It looks like not having swap enabled has solved the issue. Thanks.
It's just going to be a game of whack-a-mole. 3rd party tool to switch these things off, next M$ update finds another way to bring back the ads, 3rd party tool gets updated to knock this update sideways, and so it goes on.
It is shocking how much Windows-users tolerate from Microsoft. Imagine that even only 10-20% of these users would dump Windows, MS would quit this nonsense immediately.
Most of them will stay on Windows 10, well after it comes to an end. Just like they did with Windows XP and 7
That is slowly but surely happening. Especially in the recent 5 to 7 years that's been going on little by little
You don't really need a tool for that, you could do all of that via the command line and group policy editor. It's just ridiculous when Linux users suddenly become scared of having to do customization and pretend to be noobs once they're using a proprietary piece of software. Windows isn't good with default settings and Linux isn't either. No matter what you use, both OS'es suck in their own way and customization is the only saving grace. Don't really see any ads on my Windows installs, don't know if that is because I've disabled it or if I just have replaced all the builtin software that would display ads with my own tools already because the default programs suck anyway. The bigger Linux distros like Ubuntu aren't much better, they come with a ton of bloatware that has better alternatives so it would always preferrable to use some minimal distro like arch. Personally I always have scenarios that need all 3, Windows, Linux and sometimeseven Mac. Just pick the one that you like best and only use that one? Not that simple, sometimes I even still need MSDOS.
Group policy is only in the pro editions, yes you can do these without the tool, but it takes a lot more time.
Yss..for Windows pro versions... home versions don't come woth gpe
@@SwitchedtoLinux That's true, the home editions are severely limited in some regards. And I feel that with every version of Windows at least the pro version becomes more necessary. Back in the XP days I hardly could notice any difference.
@MichaelDustter If all you do is office work, browsing the web and some games then yes. If you are a musician you have 1 million proprietary plugins that all have their own DRM. Not worth the trouble trying to make that work on Linux. Could never get my firewire interface to work without either latency issues or pops and cracks either. Adobe Software? Game over. At least Clip Studio works well in wine so I can use it on my Arch laptop (the main program and the activation. The asset store is broken and can't connect to the internet in wine). But that's what Linux will probably stay for me - a system for servers and secondary machines. A lot of the software people use is just made for Windows and having a compatibility layer like wine adds one more layer of complexity. It's not an elegant solution when you can just install an OS that can run that stuff natively. Sometimes evne C# stuff breaks, I couldn't get my doujin downloader to work on mint because the wine mono package was too old. And I hate the way Linux does dynamic linking, much prefer the Windows way with the DLL cache. Updates on Linux got in my way in countless times or couldn't even be installed because of dependency weirdness and I don't like the package manager owning all my applications. Most people live more in their applications or in their browser than in their OS. Most dev colleagues do everything from their IDEs. You could say the emacs meme was prophetic. And the funny thing is, all the Linux software runs on Windows because it's FOSS and you can just compile it for Windows and run it natively. You don't even need that dumb WSL (except for docker), you just compile it for Windows. So Windows is just the OS that can run the most software natively. That said a replacement for Windows would be nice. Like a better ReactOS. A unix-like OS can't really be a replacement for Windows. Linux is theoretically a good replacement for commercial Unix and MacOS but in reality Linux and the rest of the Unix world are not binary compatible. Linux is just Linux and it doesn't need to be anything else. Really it should've stayed the way it was 2008, back then Linux was much more fun because it wasn't trying to be a Windows replacement.
Windows 10 bricked an SSD I was using because I refused to log in to my Microsoft account on it. It wasn’t an instant brick; it was gradual. For every time I refused to log in, every update made my drive’s performance more sluggish, until one day, I was hit with a UEFI error. So on the same laptop, I replaced the bricked SSD with a new one and installed Linux Mint. LIGHTNING FAST. As a lifelong Windows user who has only gotten into Linux in the past 5 years, I hate to say it, but Microsoft has lost a loyal customer.
Not to be a contrarian but it sounds like you just had a SSD going bad.
@@kmg501 The SSD was readable via USB external adapter through Linux Mint. It wasn't going bad, it was sabotaged.
@@Diggy22 Sabotage is a strong claim, more likely than not you had introduced some kind of hardware fault. Possibly via a cable that had been plugged in and out one too many times. These kind of faults can be vexing. Or when you tried the external it was on a different controller or even different computer.
For MS to be deliberately sabotaging drives you would end up with thousands of people reporting this behavior which is possible but I have no idea since I haven't used Windows in over four years so I haven't been any where near a MS forum to scour reports.
Anyway I usually follow the path of Occam's Razor when doing diagnostics.
@@kmg501 "via a cable"? On a laptop? While the SSD was secured with a caddy? And mind you, it was with every Windows UPDATE that the performance declined. If sabotage is a strong claim, I have proof to back it up.
Have you tried fully reformatting the drive? Have you tried to make a new mbr or gpt partition table? Use the kde partition manager to do it.
I wish I could move my company off of Windows. Our ERP is dependent on Windows.
thx brah
A Linux distro is a massive collection of third-party tools built around a kernel.
@MichaelDustter ah yes. Simple tasks like figuring out broken dependencies, getting the camera to work and connecting to a simple printer.
@MichaelDustter I mean, you can't use the GNOME desktop properly without GNOME Tweaks, unless they finally fixed that. Also GNOME's partition manager is terrible, which forces me to use something like KDE Partition Manager. You can use Libre Office just fine, but every time I send a document to someone, they are expecting Times New Roman font, which is another third-party (microsoft) download. I have never seen a DE that had a great system monitor, so now I need btop or htop. The list goes on and on and on. I am NOT a windows fan, but I do think the greatness of linux is highly exaggerated. Privacy and open source is great, but the argument that windows makes you download third party software to make the best use of it falls completely flat.
@@romakrelianeven if you were correct and that's only on very rare situations these days, anyone with half a brain would still rather learn how to use an operating system that actually lets them get things done and allows them to resolve problems that may arise or they may encounter like dependency issues versus being in a lockdown ecosystem in which a lying hypocritical company controls that
1st. 🏆
Moral of the story: Switch to Linux not because Linux is good, but because Windows is bad.
This is b s you can turn them off in windows 11 , I have .
Kid, he knows more than you it's beyond obvious because not only are ads a part of the Telemetry engine which is built into the windows kernel AKA core of the operating system, but the updates engine is also both of which you do not have editing access to.
You can toggle on and off all the little graphical user interface buttons that micro crap allows you to see and deal with all you want, but in the end Nothing Stops Microsoft from collecting data about you unless you keep that computer offline indefinitely
Notice how I said that computer and not your computer😉
I don't hate in the comments. I just troll a little ;)
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