Microsoft basically got in on this with a lot of their recent Windows stuff. Wit...

		MiddleEndian on May 26, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mozilla stops Firefox fullscreen VPN ads after use... Microsoft basically got in on this with a lot of their recent Windows stuff. With Windows 7, suddenly you saw people's PCs were no longer full of adware. Then by 8 or 10, Microsoft thought, "Wait, people put up with adware for decades, let's get on that and put it into the OS ourselves."

Now now, it's just Good and Proper Business to Milk Your Customer Dry.