Not sure how you can believe it will not lead to more ads.  First MS introduced the Ad tile or I should say multiple Ad tiles which cannot be adjusted or removed.  Then their latest update removed your custom setup for more ads limiting your ability to customize the interface to your liking and controlling the console menu even more.  Now we have full screen ads just popping up without any opt in which is my biggest issue.  Its not that you like these ads which is fine but I do not and I get no say in the matter so now the console experience continue to degrade for me as each new update removes my ability to get where I want to go or get to what I want to get to on the console.

There is no reason why MS will not continue even more intrusive measures because that is how big corp works.  

This is my point, why accept it.  Just because its something we deal with on the daily you are fine with MS doing it now.  I do not understand this mentality.  The reason why its done on a daily is because no one is making a big enough stink about it but once you allow corporations to get comfortable with something they will continue to push the envelope on it.  Like I said, my main issue is that I did not opt into these ads and MS has slowing taking away my ability to customize the interface on the Xbox and in its place put more ads into the experience.  It degrades the experience and it will only get worse not better because if the majority of Xbox users are not asking for more customization features instead of MS pushing what they want, then do not get upset later when all you have on the console is a bunch of ads or other intrusive selling tactics while your ability to customize the experience gets even more nuked.

I'm not going to waste my energy in getting angry over something which doesn't make me angry.

Simple solution though would be to just add an option to disable it in settings.

She also reveals that her brief from Microsoft asked for Cortana to have a European voice.

"They had said, we want her to sound vaguely European. And I said, What does that mean? And they said European, but no specific country."

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Microsoft 💀💀💀

"Vaguely European" what the fuck does that even mean? Lmfao.

At what point does a recommendation or notification become an ad?
I'm not bothered in the slightest by what MS currently does with "ads" on the console.
Btw. I would like more notifications. Why isn't there a pop up when a game I preloaded becomes available to play?

It's like when people say "American accent." What does that mean? Bostonian, refined southern draw, full on redneck, Cajun, Californian surfer dude, upper midwest, lower midwest all sound drastically different from each other.

Well, if you could disable ads, the majority of people would do it and them ads would become irrelevant :)

I mean I'm using ads for some of my stuff and if people could simply disable them (or use an ad blocker); it would suck :D But I understand your point, really. I'm not agree with it because I have really no issue whatsoever with ads and I see it (esp. in that particular case) as a beneficial thing (for the user) to inform them about something related to their console/platform; for me it is by no mean, degrading the experience, quite the opposite. But I def. see from you are coming from.

Hopefully Phil puts a stop to Mike Ybarra's hostility against WFH, according to Grubb that alongside his utterly stupid response to employees complaints had led to a lot of departures at Blizzard. I had thought it was maybe Bobby enforcing it but I looked at King's website and they still offer WFH...If it's a Mike policy then I'm very close to saying Chris Metzen should replace him.

Yeah I’m fully on the complaint train with the full screen pop up trying to accidentally make me buy MW3.

Yeah, like I'm British, I'm pretty sure I'd sound fuck all like Angelus (German)