Linux is an Open Source operating system that is available for free while Windows is a paid OS that costs a fair bit of money (~$200 per license). One would think that because we are getting something for free when using Linux then we are the product. Strangely this is not the case and it is Windows that is showing me advertisements like I got it for free and even more strangely people seem to be ok with it.
My Linux setup has 0 ads on it that are pushed to it by the OS, Windows on the other hand seems to be determined to put advertisements where ever it can find some space. For example, you get ads in the Start Menu, the lock screen, Windows Explorer etc etc. If I am paying money for the OS I don’t want to have ads pushed to me that I can’t get rid of. I mean the folks over at How to Geek have a 14 page document explaining how to disable all the built-in advertising in Windows 10, which shows how strongly MS is trying to push advertisements on their platform.
Which is ridiculous, I mean I would complain about this much ads on a system that I didn’t pay for but apparently it is fine for a billion dollar company to waste my screen viewing estate, bandwidth and processor power to show me advertisements on a OS that I paid money for. If a system is showing me ads then they should be making the OS free so at least they have some excuse for the behavior, similar to what Netflix is doing where the plan with the advertisements in the programing is cheaper than the one without.
What do you think?
– Suramya