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Comment by dredmorbius

13 hours ago

"Chumbox" has been a descriptive term since 2015:

"A Complete Taxonomy of Internet Chum" (4 June 2015)

<https://www.theawl.com/2015/06/a-complete-taxonomy-of-intern...>

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumbox>

Cool Wikipedia read. These (chumboxes) are on our Windows 10 lock screens at work.

  • Wait a minute, what? What I read from your comment is that on your work machines the screen savers display ads? I mean, I’d heard Windows was getting bad with the ads, but surely it doesn’t work that way out of the box.