Windows 10 pushes notifcaitons to remind you to watch the Superbowl and to purchase snacks.

[atrash]

1 minute ago, LAwLz said:

Is the super bowl a big thing in the UK? It might be a US-only thing.

It is/will be this year. They will play few games i think here but i'm not sure what team. They've been doing promotions like crazy in London since last year. Regent Street  and most of the busses here were literally a huge Super Bowl promo. Big store like NIke, Adidas, Under Armour etc even have a section dedicated for selling Super Bowl stuffs. 

[laminutederire]

Does it redirect you to stores ?  Or does it just suggest you to make a grocery list it'll remind you about.

I ask by curiosity, I don't have that notification and I don't want to have to fool windows to think I'm in the US for the notification to appear while I remain in France, for it to appear.

[Delicieuxz]

39 minutes ago, huilun02 said:

Just put all the telemetry garbage behind the router firewall and set cortana's files as read only after mangling them. 

Here are a couple of guides on how to stop Windows 10's illegal data-theft:

http://winaero.com/blog/stop-windows-10-spying-on-you-using-just-windows-firewall/

http://winaero.com/blog/how-to-disable-telemetry-and-data-collection-in-windows-10/

[tlink]

51 minutes ago, Bouzoo said:

Still no adds on either one of my 2 PCs. I suppose it's disabled on Education version?

education edition is great with that. i have yet to encounter any of the fuckery home and pro edition suffer from. loveit. still hate microsoft though, im just lucky i could get my hands on it.

[SCHISCHKA]

51 minutes ago, Bouzoo said:

Still no adds on either one of my 2 PCs. I suppose it's disabled on Education version?

education version is advertisement in itself. a hook to get you into the MS ecosystem

[SCHISCHKA]

27 minutes ago, LAwLz said:

Is the super bowl a big thing in the UK? It might be a US-only thing.

for some reason they are broadcasting it here in NZ this year. I have no idea why

[Bouzoo]

1 minute ago, SCHISCHKA said:

education version is advertisement in itself. a hook to get you into the MS ecosystem

That is true, but for people that main Windows, it's a way to get free Windows and Office 365. Nothing to complain here. 

[MSWindowsinside]

I am guessing these kind off notifications are for Americans only, I'm from the Netherlands and I've never seen anything like this. Or maybe there's a setting you forgot to turn off?

[michaelocarroll007]

2 hours ago, LAwLz said:

I wish Microsoft would just get sued already...

It is obvious that they are just trying to see how much shit they can get away with at this point.

 

The next step in Microsoft's plan is probably to sell dildos. They will go from figuratively fucking their customers, to literally fucking their customers.

 

Yeah Cortona hinting its features trying to get you to use its reminder feature is microsoft Fucking there customer, that little pop up window which you probably dont even get weekly is a huge problem. The only notification that was actually intrusive and where MS needed to be stopped was the Update ones for W10.

 

The only notifcations i see are W10 Updates that pop up once and a while. 

[michaelocarroll007]

1 hour ago, MSWindowsinside said:

I am guessing these kind off notifications are for Americans only, I'm from the Netherlands and I've never seen anything like this. Or maybe there's a setting you forgot to turn off?

I saw one once i updated for cortona like with suggestions that can be used and i get update notifcations thats about it. there not as often or advertising as people are reacting about them.  i guarantee most average consumers wouldnt even see that pop up  

[malon]

Recently went back to 7 since the only reason i went to 10 to begin with was dx12 and we all know that storie, also i have had more problems with windows 10 and their shitty pop ups and  horrible updates in a year than i had in all my time combined from win98 till i upgraded from 7 to10.

[PlayStation 2]

So am I the lucky one that's never had issues like this?

[Guest]

2 hours ago, LAwLz said:

I wish Microsoft would just get sued already...

It is obvious that they are just trying to see how much shit they can get away with at this point.

 

The next step in Microsoft's plan is probably to sell dildos. They will go from figuratively fucking their customers, to literally fucking their customers.

I love you for posting this. 

[GoodBytes]

LOL! That is funny. Is your system set to US by any chance? Maybe that is why?

Probably Cortana has it that you like sports or something if you played once around with its options (remember that options are sync between your systems if you have a MS linked account), you might have accidentally added that as an interest (or someone you used your computer did). I mean on the notification, you see Cortana icon, so it comes from there. That said, I am just guessing here. I never got such popup to look into it.

 

Anyway, just make sure you have these boxes disabled:

 

These are under: Settings > System > Notifications & actions.

 

You can probably disable Cortana notifications as well, on the list bellow the above options. But I would check Cortana settings and interest first.

[AlTech]

@Syntaxvgm  ^^^^

[Misanthrope]

2 hours ago, LAwLz said:

Is the super bowl a big thing in the UK? It might be a US-only thing.

No no, it's reach is global. Mainly because the reach of advertising is global tbf but for example here in Mexico there's geniune American Football following i.e. I hold the controversial opinion that soccer is the most fucking boring sporting activity known to man (after Baseball) so I actually prefer American Football.

[kuddlesworth9419]

Why do people always get these things. I never get any of the problems that people seem to have. Windows 10 for me is really good. Maybe I just know what I'm doing though:)

[Doobeedoo]

47 minutes ago, kuddlesworth9419 said:

Why do people always get these things. I never get any of the problems that people seem to have. Windows 10 for me is really good. Maybe I just know what I'm doing though:)

Same, I never got any adds on my machine.

[laminutederire]

1 hour ago, Misanthrope said:

No no, it's reach is global. Mainly because the reach of advertising is global tbf but for example here in Mexico there's geniune American Football following i.e. I hold the controversial opinion that soccer is the most fucking boring sporting activity known to man (after Baseball) so I actually prefer American Football.

I think soccer is the initial football in terms of chronology, but you're right it's boring as fuck,  especially when in tournaments you can have a team advancing out of group stage without even have won a single game (yes Portugal we shame you for that).

I don't know about the following of American football, but it is the most viewed sport event in the world, followed closely by the football world cup. The fact it is basically a show with entertainment worth as much as the game itself during halftime may help!

(All of that to corroborate what you were saying, still not as boring as soccer! On the boring side, I'd argue tennis can sometimes be close, since it is sooooo long)

[Misanthrope]

1 minute ago, laminutederire said:

I think soccer is the initial football in terms of chronology, but you're right it's boring as fuck,  especially when in tournaments you can have a team advancing out of group stage without even have won a single game (yes Portugal we shame you for that).

I don't know about the following of American football, but it is the most viewed sport event in the world, followed closely by the football world cup. The fact it is basically a show with entertainment worth as much as the game itself during halftime may help!

(All of that to corroborate what you were saying, still not as boring as soccer! )

To be fair, American Football teams can also get into the playoff with a loosing record (though is almost impossible without winning a single game) but other than that yes, agreed.

[Syntaxvgm]

5 hours ago, GoodBytes said:

LOL! That is funny. Is your system set to US by any chance? Maybe that is why?

Probably Cortana has it that you like sports or something if you played once around with its options (remember that options are sync between your systems if you have a MS linked account), you might have accidentally added that as an interest (or someone you used your computer did). I mean on the notification, you see Cortana icon, so it comes from there. That said, I am just guessing here. I never got such popup to look into it.

 

Anyway, just make sure you have these boxes disabled:

 

These are under: Settings > System > Notifications & actions.

 

You can probably disable Cortana notifications as well, on the list bellow the above options. But I would check Cortana settings and interest first.

 

5 hours ago, AluminiumTech said:

@Syntaxvgm  ^^^^

That's off. See the reddit argument apparently. 

I even did some registry tweaks but they get overwritten in some updates. Updates also turn these settings back on sometimes, but in this case they were off. The conclusion I came to is a batch file I can run after every update. 

[Nowak]

6 hours ago, GoodBytes said:

Anyway, just make sure you have these boxes disabled:

 

These are under: Settings > System > Notifications & actions.

I have those boxes disabled and I was still given the Super Bowl notification. Look, I know you and AluminumTech love Microsoft, but you two gotta admit that they're able to do something wrong at some point.

[Lays]

I like stuff like this actually, kinda cool to get little reminders here and there to check stuff out.

[Drak3]

1 minute ago, Lays said:

I like stuff like this actually, kinda cool to get little reminders here and there to check stuff out.

For me, it's a reminder to check on what it'd cost to soundproof my room.

[Gikero]

32 minutes ago, Syntaxvgm said:

 

That's off. See the reddit argument apparently. 

I even did some registry tweaks but they get overwritten in some updates. Updates also turn these settings back on sometimes, but in this case they were off. The conclusion I came to is a batch file I can run after every update. 

You can run an application call Shutup10. Recently heard about it via a podcast and I used it on my gf's machine due to complaints of ads. It has a lot of opens, and makes a restore point in case the setting changes are not to your liking.