Unskippable Desktop Ads Spark Backlash
Some Bing Wallpaper users woke up to a Harry Potter ad as their desktop background. When does promotion cross the line into intrusion? (To be fair, Microsoft does disclose that Bing Wallpaper may include promotional offers)
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Microsoft just replaced daily nature backgrounds with unskippable ads! Furious Windows 11 users are instantly uninstalling the Bing Wallpaper app in droves.
The regional rollout promotes an 11-movie Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts collection directly on user PCs. The Bing Wallpaper app, which users expected to rotate animal and environment backgrounds, suddenly pushed a full-page movie ad to Windows 11 PCs.
