Microsoft's Weather app now shows more ads - eviltoast

It’s raining ads in Windows 11. The Microsoft Weather app in the operating system now displays more ads.

You may recall that a year ago, Microsoft had actually removed the ads from the app, and it appeared that the company had finally listened to feedback from users. But the annoying banners are back, and there’s two of them now on the Forecast page. For those unaware, the old version of Microsoft Weather was a UWP app, but the company replaced it with an Edge WebView, which is a container that uses the Edge Engine. In other words, the Weather app is technically just a web wrapper for MSN.com/weather. You can test this yourself, just open the website in your browser and temporarily disable your ad blocker to take a look at the ads, now open the desktop app, and you can see that the same ads appear in the Weather app.

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    4 months ago

    If you want to know how windows behaves check out this app: https://safing.io/

    The amount of hard to explaining pinging that is going on will hurt your brain but you will notice that every time click start or search OR SETTINGS

    This bitch is furiously pinging Sundar Satya the creep lol

    Your choice people…

    Edit: apologies picked the wrong mascot!