Expecting that, at some point in time, some bozzo at the European Commission will impose a warning everytime we start the sim asking the user to confirm that they accept the flight to be observed by MS. 

Would this mean I would get a "Accept Cookies" prompt at the beginning of every flight?

Google actually knows a lot more..

I for one am getting more and more tired of this insanity that's going on with advertising nowadays. Makes me want to move out into the forest to be honest. A couple of examples that's happened to me personally. 

1. I was leaving the house to go shopping groceries and I had a short conversation with the wife where she said that she was out of some specific female sanitary items. Guess what I got ads for in my phone not so long after this? 

2. Sitting at work talking with a couple of collegues. One of them had had one of their elderly parents pass away recently and we were talking about funerals. Please, ask me if my phone presented different kinds of undertakers in nicely presented ads the following days. 

It really is disgusting. 

7 minutes ago, Swe_Richard said:

I for one am getting more and more tired of this insanity that's going on with advertising nowadays. Makes me want to move out into the forest to be honest. A couple of examples that's happened to me personally. 

1. I was leaving the house to go shopping groceries and I had a short conversation with the wife where she said that she was out of some specific female sanitary items. Guess what I got ads for in my phone not so long after this? 

2. Sitting at work talking with a couple of collegues. One of them had had one of their elderly parents pass away recently and we were talking about funerals. Please, ask me if my phone presented different kinds of undertakers in nicely presented ads the following days. 

It really is disgusting. 

I experienced the same as well. We were having a conversation at work about aliens during our lunch break and when we got back to our desks shortly after, some of us got ads regarding alien toys on our social media feeds.

It's also why I have a hard time trusting Android's privacy policies because what's not to say that the whole point of android was a clever way of getting a more closer and detailed look into peoples lives and harvest data for Google's advertising-based business model. I digress.

On a related note, I'm not sure how a persons flights in a sim could provide reliable data to Microsoft for any advertising, but if that's one of the core reasons for reviving the franchise, it would be ingenious.

Edited July 27, 20205 yr by FAZZ3

One thing that they will most definitely do:

Identify the most popular regions of the world by player count hanging around there regularly, and then prioritizing these regions for scenery fixing/improvements.

Or they will leave scenery improvements to the 3rd party developers.

1 hour ago, FAZZ3 said:

I experienced the same as well. We were having a conversation at work about aliens during our lunch break and when we got back to our desks shortly after, some of us got ads regarding alien toys on our social media feeds.

It's also why I have a hard time trusting Android's privacy policies because what's not to say that the whole point of android was a clever way of getting a more closer and detailed look into peoples lives and harvest data for Google's advertising-based business model. I digress.

On a related note, I'm not sure how a persons flights in a sim could provide reliable data to Microsoft for any advertising, but if that's one of the core reasons for reviving the franchise, it would be ingenious.

Imagine if advertisers will be able to advertise within the sim.. that's inovative 

8 hours ago, FAZZ3 said:

"Accept Cookies"

Something I just learned from my grandson, trying to block Cookies these days is a waste time.

Sorry for the off post.

Edited July 27, 20205 yr by jpc55

8 hours ago, FAZZ3 said:

On a related note, I'm not sure how a persons flights in a sim could provide reliable data to Microsoft for any advertising

In today's world Microsoft and thousands of other company could care less about "reliable" data they just want any kind of data that some boob will be willing to buy.

Let's say you always fly a Spitfire in your sim, chances are you might buy a DVD about the thing, or maybe a model of it, or some tickets for an airshow where there are going to be lots of Spitfires. Now you might buy these anyway, but if there's a browser link for them which pops up, maybe even with a special offer, you're one step nearer to being on that site, and then you've practically bought the thing once you're there.

If you're not that web-savvy, you might not even realise that pop up ad was caused by what you were flying in your sim; this is why it's a dubious practice in my opinion. Of course the argument against this is 'well, we didn't make you buy it', but we could say that about any advert, and if that was true, nobody would spend a cent on advertising, but of course they do, so we know advertising works.

If anyone truly objects to this sort of thing, I'd suggest they actually read the EULA for the new sim, rather than just clicking on that 'agree' tick box to get the installer progress bar moving, because I bet you a reference to this kind of thing will be in there somewhere.

Aldi doesn't make me buy 4 cans of Guinness for £4.50, but at that price it sure is easy! 

A serious question triggered by Chock's bloody funny MS paperclip popup: How would a simmer feel if, after some time, it was noticed that they tended to favour some airports more than others and the sim asked if they would like to try other "schedules" which take place at that airport? For example (if they usually fly pax airliners) "there's a cargo hub at the south end of the airport, would you care to try a cargo flight? Usual destinations from are x, y, z.. Or there's a flying club connected with the GA parking, would you care to fly GA?

Not advertising as such, unless there's a "sponsored by" pop-up , but a prompt to perhaps try other aspects of the sim?

Here are Microsoft's Services Agreement and Privacy Statement....

Edited July 27, 20205 yr by greggerm
updating links

37 minutes ago, greggerm said:

Here are Microsoft's Services Agreement and Privacy Statement....

LOL! Thanks for the links but I personally would rather stand out in the hot weather and watch a pig take a long nap than read that stuff. I expect that many of our gripes are covered there which technically make them legal but it sure does not make them right. It's all just part of the time we live in. It is all soert of like the old saying..."We can complain about the weather but, we can do nothing to change it".

We can always move to Linux?