In recent weeks, many users of Windows 11 They complained about the appearance of different Notifications tray ads of the operating system. From offers to buy Call of Duty: Black Ops 6until suggestions to use the new app to defend which is part of Microsoft 365.
The case generated quite discontent between the public, and those of Redmond recognized Windows Latest that they had begun to send such notices to the owners of computers with Windows 11. Of course the company avoided referring to its strategy as an advertising trick, since it cataloged advertisements as simple notifications.
If something was evidenced among those who received the ads was that it was not common and currents notifications. Microsoft has been experiencing with the advertising and promotional content as “suggestions” on the lock screen, the file explorer, the widgets and the Windows 11 menu.
In the case of advertisements that were shown in the notification tray, Windows 11 users had the option of discard them with one click. However, within a few hours they reappeared. For many it may not be much, but injecting ads covering them such as Push notifications is far from a nice practice. The good thing is that there is a simple method to disable them, in theory, permanently.
How to prevent Windows 11 from showing you ads in notifications
It doesn’t matter if you ran into person with the ads of Black Ops 6 And defend in the notifications of Windows 11, if you do not want that type of content to be cooked on your PC you have to follow a few steps. The first thing you should do is go to the start and open menu Configuration> System. Once you are there you have to enter the section Notifications.
The most drastic option to prevent the ads from reaching your notification tray would be completely deactivating them. However, this is not completely recommended. Keep in mind that if you use applications such as Slack or Teams to work you can miss important notices if you decide to silence 100 %equipment notifications.
To prevent undercover advertisements from getting to you, you must navigate to the end of the list that appears in notifications and touch on additional configuration. There you have to deactivate the option you say “Obtain recommendations and suggestions when using Windows”. In papers, Microsoft promises that this is enough not to see more commercial content in Windows 11, at least among notifications.
As an extra recommendation, also deactivates the option that says “Suggest ways to get the most out of Windows and finish the configuration of this device”. In one way or another, it is likely that in the future we come across new advertising forms integrated in Windows 11, so we will remain attentive to the news.
