There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.

Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.

viking ,
@viking@infosec.pub avatar

Sounds like the perfect place to run ads for Starbucks (or painkillers in countries where you can legally advertise for drugs online).

“Your system is fucked. Scan this code for 15% off! Might as well, it’s gonna be a loooong day. Toodeloo!”

lolola ,
@lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Imagine the incentives tho. It’s free real estate, but how would they sell it to advertisers? “Here’s some ad space, but we work really hard to make sure users see it as rarely as possible.”

But if they do manage to sell it, the dev team then has this wacky incentive to trigger BSODs often enough to hit revenue targets, but rarely enough that they don’t drive away their user base. As another commenter put it, cynical and absurd, but… I mean, there’s a universe where it could happen… hopefully it’s not this one.

Nobody ,

“Your computer might be fucked or whatever. Maybe do some shit about it. Brought to you by Carl’s Jr. We love you.”

cmoney ,

Don’t forget Brawndo, it’s what computers crave.

Chozo ,

I remember back in the day before browsers had much in the way of protection, and ads could do basically whatever they wanted on your computer. I distinctly remember seeing ads back in the 2000s that would go fullscreen and emulate a BSOD, with a number to call a fake Microsoft Support.

stepan ,

Don’t give them ideas 🙏

someguy3 ,

BSOD?

argh_another_username ,

Blue Screen Of Death.

Boozilla ,
@Boozilla@lemmy.world avatar

This is so cynical and absurd I kind of expect it to happen. Late stage capitalism, yay.

NegentropicBoy ,

Their most popular page, a goldmine of opportunity.

ChaoticNeutralCzech OP ,

Too bad bluescreened computers likely won’t report back viewership stats

RandomLegend ,

Microsoft would do anything to keep the statcounting service running more stable than the kernel itself

bobs_monkey ,

I would imagine stats could be somehow stored and sent off once the problem is resolved

adarza ,

dear user.

thank you for your report.

please be assured that even in the event of a bsod, windows will still report metrics back to microsoft so long as the system drive is operational for use as temporary storage of that data until the next successful windows boot.

new OOB ad metrics reporting will also be added to intel ime and amd psp in future processors in order to further address your concern.

-microsoft support

dohpaz42 ,
@dohpaz42@lemmy.world avatar

I dunno. Kernels can dump the memory pages and whatnot, surely they could throw in which ad got served at the time too. I’m sure someone up at Microsoft is smart enough to figure it out.

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