Windows needs to stop showing tabloid news

idk, i think 'tomshardware.com' needs a reality check. there's like 100 disgusting taboola and google ads on their own website that look identical to these awful microsoft ads. its hard to take a rant about trashy ads seriously coming from a page that is littered with them.

One has reason to expect ads on a website, but not on their OS.

> The stories come courtesy of Microsoft’s MSN content network, which syndicates content from hundreds of web publishers: some reputable, some less so. Full disclosure: Our parent company, Future Plc, has a syndication agreement with MSN and many of its sites, including Tom’s Hardware, occasionally have articles appear on the network. What’s problematic here, though, is not that MSN syndicates content but that it often pushes the equivalent of the Weekly World News table of contents right into the Windows operating system where it can be hard to avoid.

The difference is: I paid for Windows, but I didn't pay for tomshardware.com.

i tried turning off my adblocker and yeahhhh the ads-to-content ratio is a bit out of control https://i.imgur.com/Dre5HJw.jpeg

Story time : A couple of years ago, i got a message from Mozilla about a survey/competition for Indian users to find websites which had the most number of trackers. The top winners would get a coupon worth a couple of bucks.

I immediately embarked on my search with safeties off - Noscript, Ublock, disabled

I surfed through various Indian websites - times of india, yellow journalism websites, local language tabloids, desi xxx sites - I expanded my search globally- dailymail, cnet, piratebay - my cpu fans whining in protest as i trawled through the darkest, most malware-infested, crypto-miner-laden, chumbox-ridden corners of the web. The average number of trackers was now in the triple digits but still i felt i could do better. That i had seen worse. Suddenly,it clicked. I could almost feel time stop and spacetime warp around me as my dsl connection struggled to load up tomshardware.com. Ding Ding, My quest had ended by a healthy margin.

So thanks for the coffee, tomshardware.com

Worth noticing.. the site also still works fine with ad block enabled and there was no nag screen or paywall around it.

What is this childish 'he does bad things so it is ok others do bad things too' dumbness please? Are you really trying to protect a bad practice you know is bad because this is a common bad things so bad thing should be accepted? Really? Because this is what sounds like.

Also, analogy between a sometimes visited scoped web page and the operating system that you use 100% of time when your computer is on and is the foundation of any activity? Are you mad?

Are you perhaps distracted from the message by those awful annoyances, ironicaly demonstrating the harmful nature of those in Windows too inadvertently?

Every time I see the unfiltered web, it is a glimpse into how the 'other side' must live. It is surreal to imagine how anyone accepts this as 'normal' but somehow they manage to survive.

Unfortunately about the same ratio on that imgur link as well.