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I can't believe a paid OS needs a tool like this. Here's a GUI tool called OFGB (Oh Frick Go Back) to remove all the ads in Windows 11. It's understandable if a free OS or app needs ad support, but this is just crazy github.com/xM4ddy/OFGB

[Screenshot Of a GUI Tool To Removes Ads From Various Places Around Windows 11]

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[–] [email protected] 143 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I want to make a script for Linux that adds ads everywhere. It would be tricky with Wayland but not impossible. It could start by installing browser extensions.

[–] [email protected] 103 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There is a special place in hell for you lol.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 6 months ago (2 children)

If they were fake ads like in GTA and Cyberpunk, it could be fun, provided you could turn them on and off anytime.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

I'll use the Google Ad platform

From there I'll encrypt all your files and make you watch an ad per file to access your data

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago

Uh sorry, this is a big file. Here's the second, unskippable ad.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

It has a 1 in 500 chance of serving you a 300 hour ad you cannot skip, and if you attempt to restart the system to get rid of it, it'll make a note of that and restart the ad from the beginning after the next reboot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

If you try it twice, it will delete the file you were about to access.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

If you try it twice, it will delete the file you were about to access.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Uh sorry, this is a big file. Here's the second, unskippable ad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Super-hell now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Now I wish there was an advertising studio where, like, they specialized in shitty ads for real things. Like "I made a game on newgrounds, you WON'T LAST TEN SECONDS" but it's just a flappy birds clone or something

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And call the script "Windows"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

I was thinking more along the lines of "optimizer"

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Na just throw ads into system logs. Or do what Ubuntu does and throw an advert every time you run apt upgrade.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Have you tried installing any packages from NPM recently?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

9474733 packages are looking for funding

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I think that is the better case. That is just NPM aggregating the metadata. There are lots of packages that print their own ad.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Make it for Hannah Montana Linux plz!