Microsoft has done a lot on Android in recent years, and last week many were excited when the company launched its Your Phone Companion app for mirroring notifications on a Windows 10 PC. However, that’s had an unfortunate side effect that sees Microsoft inserting ads in Android’s share menus for its various other apps.
They’re placing ads in the share and open with menus in Android if you install a Microsoft Android application. This is just terrible, scummy, and tasteless on so many levels, I don’t even know where to begin.
The way they get on with Office & Windows, particularly with OneDrive, I wouldn’t doubt but whomever thought this was a good idea actually thought it was moderate and constrained action in the users interest. The arrogance of developers sometimes knows no bounds.
I hope this is a step towards getting the ability to disable the share menu entirely. I should never be one butt-dial away from sharing personal items with co-workers.
Lock your phone?
Not a guarantee when every long press immediately brings up the share menu, or clicking on certain areas of an application that are already set aside to bring up the share menu. I really don’t need it and shouldn’t have to tolerate the fact it’s nothing more than a useless annoyance to me.
You should begin with the playstore rules https://play.google.com/intl/en-US/about/monetization-ads/ads/ says “Ads must only be displayed within the app serving them” so not in the share-menu
Personally, i just find it dumb and confusing.
Simple, don’t install anything MS on Android. They still can’t be trusted. And I don’t think they ever will be worthy of trust. My opinion after 30 years dealing with MS shenanigans. FUD and EEE.
I’m with Arawn. I haven’t installed anything with MS, although, I don’t think they are all FUD. They are a big company with a lot of complication. But I do agree what menus with ads are… a step way too far.
“This is just terrible, scummy, and tasteless on so many levels, I don’t even know where to begin.”
You’ve just perfectly described Microsoft since the 1970s. Just re-paste this with EVERY Microsoft item that you post and you won’t have to add anything else.