Enshittification: Difference between revisions

Line 97:

[[Adobe]]...

[[Microsoft Windows]]...

[[Microsoft Windows]]:

- Forced Microsoft account sign-in. Starting with Windows 10 and further enforced in Windows 11, preventing offline use and increase the telemetry data collection.

- Built-in advertisements. Despite Windows being a paid-for software, the OS will contain advertisements in the start menu, lock screen, notifications about Microsoft 365, OneDrive, Edge, and more. Even if disabled, ads will reappear with the following OS update.

- Dark patterns in applications. Edge will always ask to become the default browser, warnings about switching away. OneDrive prompts dialogues to "protect your files" which require a upload to the cloud with a OneDrive account. Applications often do not have a "never ask again" button, only "Try for free" or "maybe later" such as in Microsoft365.

- Increased telemetry. Telemetry settings are always enabled by default and they provide limited ability to disable them.

- Forced updates. Updates cannot be permanently disabled, you can only disable them for up to 4 weeks. The OS will force the download as soon as possible when the countdown timer has expired.

- Bundled software bloat. Preinstalled Microsoft applications that aren't vital to the functionalities of the OS and do not request the user if they should be added.

- Search degradation. The search files menu has degraded over the years in favor of searching online with Bing to provide more advertisements as web results.

===Video Games===

@@ Line 97: / Line 97: @@
 [[Adobe]]...
-[[Microsoft Windows]]...
+[[Microsoft Windows]]:
+- Forced Microsoft account sign-in. Starting with Windows 10 and further enforced in Windows 11, preventing offline use and increase the telemetry data collection.
+- Built-in advertisements. Despite Windows being a paid-for software, the OS will contain advertisements in the start menu, lock screen, notifications about Microsoft 365, OneDrive, Edge, and more. Even if disabled, ads will reappear with the following OS update.
+- Dark patterns in applications. Edge will always ask to become the default browser, warnings about switching away. OneDrive prompts dialogues to "protect your files" which require a upload to the cloud with a OneDrive account. Applications often do not have a "never ask again" button, only "Try for free" or "maybe later" such as in Microsoft365.
+- Increased telemetry. Telemetry settings are always enabled by default and they provide limited ability to disable them.
+- Forced updates. Updates cannot be permanently disabled, you can only disable them for up to 4 weeks. The OS will force the download as soon as possible when the countdown timer has expired.
+- Bundled software bloat. Preinstalled Microsoft applications that aren't vital to the functionalities of the OS and do not request the user if they should be added.
+- Search degradation. The search files menu has degraded over the years in favor of searching online with Bing to provide more advertisements as web results.
 ===Video Games===