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SamboT , to technology in How do i stop this kind of pop up from ever appearing again? Win10

Don’t use chrome

HidingCat , to gaming in Pssst, can I interest you in some free video games?

Thanks for this, already subbed a few weeks back. Managed to snag a few games because of it too!

Zuberi , to gaming in Pssst, can I interest you in some free video games?
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Fuck amazon. These aren’t “free”

smeg OP ,

All the ones not from Amazon are, and if you want you can just create a free Prime trial, claim all the free games, keep them indefinitely, and give them no money

Zuberi ,
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I’m not giving the site ANY traffic or userbase #s

smeg OP ,

No problem with that, plenty of indies on IndieGala and itch.io to claim instead

Zuberi ,
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Appreciate it :)!

HidingCat ,

Since many of us are subbed anyway, they're still something of value that one doesn't have to pay extra money for. And it's really easy to forget about them, so smeg's community is doing a nice service for the rest of us.

Carter , to technology in How do i stop this kind of pop up from ever appearing again? Win10

I don’t know what people are doing in Windows to get all these ads. I’ve never seen a single one.

chameleon ,
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All of this stuff is A/B tested, region/locale divided, edition divided, hardware divided, based on what other stuff you've agreed to and more. You don't have to do anything to encounter this stuff.

HidingCat ,

Are you in the USA? I learnt that most of these ads are shown to US users.

iHUNTcriminals , to technology in How do i stop this kind of pop up from ever appearing again? Win10

A bullet?

gravitas_deficiency , to technology in How do i stop this kind of pop up from ever appearing again? Win10

Use Firefox and uBlock origin

MoonRaven , to technology in How do i stop this kind of pop up from ever appearing again? Win10
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Have you tried binging it?

pandora , to technology in How do i stop this kind of pop up from ever appearing again? Win10
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MacOS 👍

RanchOnPancakes , to technology in How do i stop this kind of pop up from ever appearing again? Win10
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Just switch your search to bing. Do it DrGonzo. Join us. Join us. Join ussssssssssssss.

gladflag , to technology in How do i stop this kind of pop up from ever appearing again? Win10

This pop up tabbed me out of a game of Valorant yesterday 😤

HeyJoe , to technology in How do i stop this kind of pop up from ever appearing again? Win10

The comments are weird. How often do you even see this? I feel like I remember it once and hit don’t switch and thats it. Not sure why you keep getting it, but I also don’t use edge so maybe that is why. I would imagine if there is a way to stop it it’s in settings somewhere or possibly a local group policy maybe.

DaniloT ,

I saw this exact popup yesterday, I remember seeing something similar to it before but it has been quite a while. The thing is, this single popup broke my computer entirely, I was playing a game and it jumped in front of the game, immediately stole the games inputs and I couldn’t even pause it. Then clicking don’t switch did absolutely nothing and the popup remained there, and any attempt to forcefully close the popup failed. Also, I was streaming at the time to my tv, and attempting to use any system related screen is blocked (and this popup counts as a system settings screen!), So it just crashed the entire thing while I was trying to dismiss or close it. I was stuck and couldn’t even reboot, had to hold the button and lose any progress I had in the game.

So yeah, I would be very interested in not letting this happen again as well.

HeyJoe ,

Now that is a crazy story and can understand being really annoyed if that happened! I definitely have had my share of wtf moments on Windows as well so I get it.

DingoBilly , to technology in How do i stop this kind of pop up from ever appearing again? Win10

Do you just need an adblock extension on chrome? Should be an easy fix. Or the O&O shutup program may work as well, have used that in the past effectively.

I use Chrome on Windows and have never seen this, or at least, not for years so hard to know where the setting is to disable exactly.

Lol @ the responses saying to switch OS. Such extreme views.

imgonnatrythis , to technology in How do i stop this kind of pop up from ever appearing again? Win10

Have you tried switching your default search engine to Microsoft Bing in Chrome?

lemmyuser100002 , to technology in How do i stop this kind of pop up from ever appearing again? Win10

Use macOS

Kuvwert ,

Lmao. No

BudgieMania , to technology in How do i stop this kind of pop up from ever appearing again? Win10

Straight up the same playbook that other entities used in the past to get your grandma to install unwanted search bars in internet explorer. No wonder Windows Defender is so advanced, Microsoft has a lot of experience as the developer of the most popular malware in the world.

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