9 tweaks that turn off your Windows PC’s most annoying ads
Remember back when Windows 11 first came out and Microsoft gave everyone a free pass to upgrade? On the surface, it was a generous move; in actuality, it was a ploy to lure us away…
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How to block annoying texts with a few taps on your iPhone
Apple hasn’t yet provided a simple way to mark unwanted incoming text messages and block and delete them. Nor do they identify texts for patterns–as the Mail app and iCloud.com does to mark commercial and…
How to turn off annoying Windows notifications for individual apps
The notifications at the bottom right of the Windows desktop screen can be practical. If you’re waiting for an important e-mail, for example, you don’t need to keep opening the mail program to look for…
Eradicate Windows 11’s annoying Microsoft ads with this free tool
Microsoft keeps pumping more and more ads into Windows 11. In addition to self-advertising in the Start menu, app recommendations, and pop-ups for Game Pass games, there are now also pop-ups for cloud storage that…
Here’s how Safari’s new Distraction Control lets you snap away annoying ads like Thanos
In macOS Sequoia and iOS/iPadOS 18, Apple will introduce a new Safari feature called Distraction Control, which allows users to select an element on a website and make it disappear. It’s not an ad blocker…
Windows 11 strikes again with annoying pop-up that can’t be disabled
Microsoft is always finding new ways to disrupt and annoy users—and this time, it comes in the form of an unavoidable pop-up notification. Even while most people are still upset by constant Windows 11 update…
Microsoft hunts for fix to annoying Windows 10 taskbar bug
Microsoft has confirmed an annoying bug in Windows 10: users who right-click on the taskbar are shown an incorrect “Open with” dialogue with the meaningless “How do you want to open the file?” instead of…
Microsoft is finally changing Word’s annoying default Paste behavior
The default pasting behavior of Microsoft Word is a nightmare, and has been forever. If you want to add a text or image using the standard option, you can easily mess up the entire formatting…
Microsoft Windows EOL pop-ups: Watch their long, annoying history
In recent weeks and months, Microsoft has increased the pressure on Windows 10 users to finally upgrade to Windows 11, highlighting the impending end of Windows 10 support. However, this end of support is not…
Your HomePod is about to become a whole lot less annoying
If you use a streaming service other than Apple Music and find it annoying to constantly remind Siri of this fact, you may be excited to hear about an upcoming software update for the HomePod.…