Get Off My Desktop! Windows Needs to Stop Showing Tabloid News

[Admin]

Microsoft is treating the Windows search and widgets boxes like a supermarket checkout line.

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[Ahumado]

A man after my own heart

 

[Dr3ams]

The feed is supplied by MSN and its various liberal affiliates. That cannot be changed.

No thanks.

 

[ezst036]

As Windows continues to slowly lose market share, Microsoft has to find revenue to replace it somewhere.

The OS is not the product anymore. You are the product.

 

[infinitytec]

I'm going to take a bit of a different view:
I don't care if they have tabloids, CNN, or even a completely fake news site.

I just want to be able to turn off the news feed entirely so the widgets are usable.

 

[USAFRet]

I'm going to take a bit of a different view:
I don't care if they have tabloids, CNN, or even a completely fake news site.

I just want to be able to turn off the news feed entirely so the widgets are usable.

In Win 11:

Click the Options icon at top right of the 'Search' window
Select Search Settings
Scroll down to More Settings
Turn this OFF

 

[infinitytec]

In Win 11:

Click the Options icon at top right of the 'Search' window
Select Search Settings
Scroll down to More Settings
Turn this OFF

I'll have to try this. Thanks.

 

[bit_user]

I never had this issue on Linux.

 

[USAFRet]

I never had this issue on Linux.

Under 2 hours!

But I didn't think it would take that long for the requisite Linux comment to appear.

 

[infinitytec]

I never had this issue on Linux.

Sadly not always an option.

 

[Math Geek]

Under 2 hours!

But I didn't think it would take that long for the requisite Linux comment to appear.

i don't have the issue in Win 7 either

j/k that's got to be annoying. but if it's part of a "weather" app, then seems like an easy thing to turn off. plenty of easy ways to get the weather than windows thingy... especially if it is just an ad serving "feature"

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

Some would call this a clickbaity, tabloid like article as well. I would be one of those people.

It's easy to turn off headlines, you even state that in the article, and Microsoft even makes it quite easy to turn them off, helpful since customizing the sources takes ages and even then it often doesn't show you much of what you're interested in, like most headline news sources. And for reference, I have never seen any ads for a TomsHardware article despite seeing many from Cnet, Techspot, AndroidPolice, and other tech sources.

The problem FOR YOU (the author) is that since you want to use the MSN service to get a temperature icon in your taskbar you also get to effectively see MSN ads to use that service. There are other services and sources, your phone's lockscreen or your smartwatch, for two, that don't have ads.

So the title of this article should be: How to easily disable ads in Windows 11 (unless you want to use their ad supported service!)

 

[infinitytec]

i don't have the issue in Win 7 either

j/k that's got to be annoying. but if it's part of a "weather" app, then seems like an easy thing to turn off. plenty of easy ways to get the weather than windows thingy... especially if it is just an ad serving "feature"

Time to go back to Vista! (/s)

 

[Math Geek]

Time to go back to Vista! (/s)

lol, i never used vista. stayed with XP until 7 came out, where i still sit today.

 

[Deleted member 1353997]

Time to go back to Vista! (/s)

I'm probably going to be crucified for saying this, but I kinda liked the way Vista looked. Despite its flaws, I regret never getting to experience it.

 

[drivinfast247]

Never had this issue on Windows 95!

 

[atomicWAR]

Never had this issue on Windows 95!

Rofl

 

[BX4096]

I never had this issue on Linux.

Whatever the heck this is, I never had this issue either on Windows 10 or Windows 11 either. In fact, today is the first time I'm learing that an issue like this exists. If you can use Linux, you sure as hell can disable useless stuff or block it with a firewall, too. I usually do it the first hour I get my hands on a system.

 

[TechAnswer]

You are wasting your time trying to stop this. Windows has been trojan software for years now. Its goal is not to be an OS, its goal is to sell you. Use something else if you want an operating system.

 

[DavidLejdar]

I like the idea of the widgets in the corner, but I don't like that I can't customize it much at all. In particular in regard to news, MSN does offer some personalization options - e.g., I can tell it to push (more) sports news in my feed, or that I do not want news from a specific site. But for me that's hardly as practical as putting e.g. tech news by RSS feed from selected sites into one (widget) box.

And it seems quite lame that such option doesn't exist - as if MS is telling me that their algorithm is better than my own choice - nor an option e.g. to receive Steam notifications in a widget box there, etc. (which I don't expect MS to provide per se, but not all of us want to live in a closed MS world experience).

 

[UWguy]

I wish Microsoft would make a gaming only version of Windows 11 for maximum performance.

 

[Loadedaxe]

I never had this issue on Linux.

The Linux user that has to know whats going on with Windows!

Classy Linux user.

 

[razorree]

hm.... I don't see any news or advertisements ... (newest Win11, maybe i've disabled it somewhere... ? )

 

[Findecanor]

The Linux user that has to know whats going on with Windows!

I dunno about you, but ... my mum often asks me for free tech support with her Windows PC. So I need to.

 

[plausible_deniability]

Under 2 hours!

But I didn't think it would take that long for the requisite Linux comment to appear.

I thought Linux was a piano player.