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Are you OK with ads on you console?`

Yup 60 13.16%
 
Nope 311 68.20%
 
Indifferent 54 11.84%
 
See results 29 6.36%
 
Total:454

I'm absolutely sick and tired of the bullshit ads which clog up my dashboard on my 360, and absolutely disgusted that Microsoft feels that this is totally OK.

I can't believe that they show ads to paying customers. I had Live Gold for a year and a half on my 360, and didn't bother renewing it in part because Microsoft decided it is a OK to show non-gaming related ads on my dashboard, even if I am paying $60 a year for network along with buying games on the console.

I just don't get how people haven't petitioned Microsoft to get rig of the ads? I mean, it's an even bigger problem than always-on Kinect was, because Microsoft actually collects your info across multiple devices to build an advertising experience tailored for the average person, which is just as scary as always-on Kinect. I mean, you can choose to opt-out of targeted ads (you'll still get ads though), but does the average consumer really know how, or even bother? There's even articles on Microsoft using user data to build political ads, which is just sickening, imo.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/03/07/microsoft-is-using-your-data-to-target-political-ads-on-xbox-live/

Sorry that I'm getting worked up about this, I just booted up my 360 for the first time in two months to play some Halo 4 with friends and got a facefull of ads. At least on the other consoles, ads only display on small parts of the screen in seperate sections (I haven't noticed a single obtrusive non-gaming related ad on my PS4, PS3, or Wii U), but on my 360 it looks like there are more ads for games and even non-games than there are my own tiles for my content. 

Some examples:

The majority of the screen is taken up by Microsoft's ads. 



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I don't even recognize them as long as I don't look in that little corner where the ad always is, that's why I'm ok with it. They could obviously fill that little place with a picture of a game or something but yeah...

The "collecting" stuff , I use Google so that I'm used to that and I will get advertisement with or without them collecting these data. Just which ads I will get changes. 

I know that people say that "when you pay you shouldn't get ads" but it's only a matter of time until other companies will do the same. It's like with pay-tv, you already pay a huge amount and still get ads. 



I never pay attention to them. I go straight to Games.
I don't find them obtrusive at all.



So youre going to give up on your favorite franchises and gaming all together because you did not want to see a nonintrusive ad on the dashboard? I'm willing to bet you've never played a 360 before!



Goatseye said:
I never pay attention to them. I go straight to Games.
I don't find them obtrusive at all.

It takes away space from the content that I want to put there. I have a ton of digital games, and those tiles could be used for those instead of a bunch of ads.



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You got a facefull of ads? I barely notice them. And they never prevented me from enjoying games. I'm not saying it's great to have ads but I don't think it's that big of an issue...



toastboy44562 said:
So youre going to give up on your favorite franchises and gaming all together because you did not want to see a nonintrusive ad on the dashboard? I'm willing to bet you've never played a 360 before!


And no, I'm not gving up on gaming at all, I've got other consoles plenty, and I don't use my 360 much anyway. It just doesn't seem right that this is completely OK.



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I always found it funny that they made you pay for XBL and then flooded the dash with ads that pay for XBL.



Wait... thats a thing? Huh, I never knew that lolll. Are they annoying? It kinda seems weird that u would get ads on ur dashboard of all places... Like I get getting ads on the store but dashboard? Hmm



                  

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Jazz2K said:
You got a facefull of ads? I barely notice them. And they never prevented me from enjoying games. I'm not saying it's great to have ads but I don't think it's that big of an issue...

I know for a fact that on the Xbox One there are as many as 3-4 titles showing ads for games/music/videos at any one time. The "Featured" part of the screen takes up the entire right side on the home tab. 3 random ads just waiting there.



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