Windows 11’s Weather app shoves in yet more ads

How bad it’s gotten and what you can do about it.

Everything you need to know from the month in tech As Microsoft continues rolling out updates to Windows 11 and its included software that most people didn’t ask for, alarm bells have rung with the redesign of the Windows 11 Weather app – an app that now appears to be not only less functional but seems to have been made worse just to place yet more advertisements. This was most thoroughly observed by user @ChangeWindows in their X thread. Microsoft has already received much criticism for adding egregious ads to nearly every facet of Windows 11, a paid operating system – the most egregious of them all being Start Menu Ads. The advertisements in an already-paid operating system have received plenty of backlash, and now Microsoft seems to be doing…

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