Microsoft has begun rolling out a major update to the Weather app. Don’t worry, your favorite ads are still there! Better yet, you’ll now get even more! pic.twitter.com/lJtsFyDLSmJune 29, 2024
Fortunately, we don’t live in a world without recourse for these things. While the staple Windows 11 app for removing built-in ads has yet to be updated for these in particular, most of Windows 11’s ads, including the infamous Start Menu ads, can already be disabled with the appropriately-named"Oh F*ck Go Back" utility.
Those looking for a better Weather app for Windows may also want to considerFluentWeatherorLively Weather. Both are ad-free, FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) solutions that fit well with the native theming of Windows 10 and 11.
As a silver lining, Windows 10 users who want to stay away from Windows 11 due to justified reasons like this may have some recourse if they don’t want to pay Microsoft for the privilege ofextended Windows 10 support past 2025. However, asinsisted by Microsoft and “the market,“the era of Windows 10 PCs seems set to end sooner rather than later, regardless of theconsequences to our environmentor our eyes.
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