Pi-hole still seems to block them
Yep, I’m using NextDNS for dns filtering, but same same. If it weren’t for the empty grey boxes where the ad was, I wouldn’t know my xbox had ads.
They’re not going anywhere. It’s another revenue stream for Xbox and the majority of users don’t care about them.
Imagine paying 500 bucks for a console just for it to be filled with ads. Wtf
I shouldn’t be surprised though since they pull the same crap for 4k+ tvs
Yeah my Samsung TV has ads as soon as you turn the thing on. It slows if right down as well.
Ironically, sometimes those ads are for Xbox Game Pass.
I just bought a Samsung tv, will use it with an Apple TV 4K so I don’t have to deal with their shitty ads and software
I’m afraid if anything the ads will increase :-(. The only way for them to stop putting ads there is for us to stop buying their product.
Why should they? You bought something from Microsoft, you get something in Microsoft quality. Phoning home your underwear size and sexual preferences and selecting the most intrusive ads for you included.
Cause ads are acceptable only if we don’t pay, otherwise we are paying to be the product.
even worse, we pay the console, the games (which aren’t cheap in the slightest) and the Gold to play online!
I started a new job where I travel a lot, and I’m wanting one more and more.
How do you like it?
Well, if the paying customer can also be sold off for extra cash, the more profit to them! And probably bigger bonuses for the higher-ups.
Ultimately you will have to accept that you don’t ‘own’ your Xbox. None of us do. Microsoft does, and you paid $500 for the hardware, which they can decide to brick remotely at any time.
This is the tradeoff between console and PC. Console is significantly cheaper but you don’t get any control over it.
Ads are never going away, and will likely only get more intrusive until people start hitting their breaking points.
Microsoft owns most gaming PCs, too, with Windows which is increasingly ad-ridden. The existence of some Linux-based alternatives is still a small percentage compared to Microsoft’s dominance here.
Yeah, they really ought to be getting cracked down upon by governments for their monopoly on desktop computing.
Simply opening directX would solve a lot of problems with gaming.
