Ads in Windows 10
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I had a user stop me the other day and ask me to get rid of the pop up ads on their computer. I asked for more details and of course they could provide none. I asked them to get a screen capture the next time it happened, and here it is:
This is a Windows 10 notification style ad.
Anyone else run into this?
Anyone know how to get rid of them?I've googled for 20 seconds so far - I'll be googling more after this post.
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@Dashrender I dont have anything like that in Win10 Enterprise edition.
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@jmoore said in Ads in Windows 10:
@Dashrender I dont have anything like that in Win10 Enterprise edition.
I've never seen ads like this myself, only ads for OneDrive and O365... But I have two users who have now reported these non Microsoft ads.
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That's what happens when a user visits a website and they say yes to allow notifications.
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@Obsolesce Oh ok I didn't know that.
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@Obsolesce said in Ads in Windows 10:
That's what happens when a user visits a website and they say yes to allow notifications.
Oh that sucks!... OK thanks - now to figure out how to kill notifications.
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@Dashrender Oh sorry I forgot. When I install win10 to a vm I kill all the notifications then I capture the image. I didn't know what problems I was avoiding.
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@jmoore said in Ads in Windows 10:
@Dashrender Oh sorry I forgot. When I install win10 to a vm I kill all the notifications then I capture the image. I didn't know what problems I was avoiding.
I don't have Enterprise - so I do have a bunch of stuff you don't have to contend with.
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it's also likely that my users will want notifications from places like Gmail - but not other websites.
So I have to tell them how to reset the notifications, in say Chrome, then tell them to be more selective about what they allow notifications from. -
@Dashrender said in Ads in Windows 10:
it's also likely that my users will want notifications from places like Gmail - but not other websites.
So I have to tell them how to reset the notifications, in say Chrome, then tell them to be more selective about what they allow notifications from.That'll be difficult as most people just click. "okay" to get the content they want visible without reading.
What I'm saying is you're going to be dealing with this forever.
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Yeah, I've seen a LOT of malicious Chrome extensions recently. It's a plague.
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@Dashrender I get pop-ups from sites, Firefox here, asking to push live updates. I've absentmindedly clicked YES and then those kinds of things started happening.
Now, it's been quite awhile so I don't remember how to turn that off. :S
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This page shows how to remove notifications you've allowed
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-turn-off-google-chrome-desktop-notifications/
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They're chrome notifications
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@Dashrender said in Ads in Windows 10:
This page shows how to remove notifications you've allowed
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-turn-off-google-chrome-desktop-notifications/
Just disable them via GPO
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or disable them all together
https://www.howtogeek.com/244539/how-to-disable-the-action-center-in-windows-10/
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I'm not ready to go all postal on notifications. Some of them are kinda nice. i.e. if you use gmail - getting notices that a new email arrived is nice.
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@Dashrender We are having this issue now too. What did you decide to do?
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@Curtis said in Ads in Windows 10:
@Dashrender We are having this issue now too. What did you decide to do?
I believe he disabled just the individual source of the notifications. In this case the Chrome notifications from the shady websites.
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@DustinB3403 said in Ads in Windows 10:
@Curtis said in Ads in Windows 10:
@Dashrender We are having this issue now too. What did you decide to do?
I believe he disabled just the individual source of the notifications. In this case the Chrome notifications from the shady websites.
Yep, that's what I did - disabled the specific website that the user had allowed to notify.
