cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3405817

Have to use Windows for work (I’ve asked), the ads have been getting worse and worse on my work laptop. Today got a game ad notification… That’s clearly too far, right? Like I have to clear notifications, so I have to see it

  • redfellow@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    You can uninstall the Xbox app. Why that’s not done by your work domain admin is peculiar, or are you using random consumer installations?

    • yukichigai@kbin.social
      4·
      1 year ago

      My work forgot to remove game mode and a bunch of the built-in advertisement stuff from the workstation images they were using a while back, and I work for state government.

    • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      If they uninstalled the xbox app they’d have no way of coordinating their sea of thieves matches with the employees that work on a console

      • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Incidentally this makes me want to put the following plot into a sitcom:

        • Company lacks a computer and assigns an employee an xbox instead
        • They’re expected to use browser versions of slack, outlook, etc on the built-in edge browser
        • Their request for a keyboard is denied
        • This plot line goes background, but still appears in this form: any time that character’s input is considered in email or slack or whatever it’s ultra-short and contains tons of xbox-like abbreviations like “gg”
        • It ends up turning this character’s whole style into “man of few words”. Even in person they turn to him and his response after a really long wait is “We do Anne’s idea. Meeting over”
        • He flies up the corporate ladder as a result
        • Occasional shots inside his office as a high-level exec include a big TV and an xbox. The fact this is his work station is not overtly mentioned. You never see a laptop.