Think those one or two pop ads you always encounter when online are bad? That’s nothing if a patent from Apple gains any traction. An OS full of annoying pop ads and annoying placement may very well soon be coming to your desktop. Though in the age we live, patents and copyrights have become more tools for preventing innovation and saving your ass from lawsuit by filing patents years in advance of a planned release…if a public release is even ever planned. Why ruin the desktop environment with Viagra ads and weight loss flyers? The reasoning is a novel one though — a free, ad supported OS. Kind of like an infected Linux: Free and full of ads. Super. I can generally look past ads on free apps that are add supported, but a full fledged OS with crap content lurking behind every window, waiting for each and every click I make to bombard me about how fat I am and that I need extensions in certain areas? Ya, I’ll pass. A free ad supported OS would spell “win” for many however. Are you one of them? Or are you plenty happy paying a little more for an untouched, clean, and clutter free OS?
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