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How dare they put a pop-up promoting a feature of a software inside that software, like, once. Do they think they get a pass because only nagging pop-ups are considered ad? /s

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Once? There’s no “once”. It’s “Sign up” or “Maybe later”.

Speculation much? I use vscode. I didn't see this popped up more than once. Do you actually know that they nag or you just hate by default?

The issue with people like you is that you have no idea what a pattern is, and you are unaware of Microsoft's past use of such patterns

But I also blame the people who call this "an ad", this is not an ad, this is much worse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

Oh I am aware of all the patterns. I'm also aware that "Later" instead of "No" is simply an UI convention, that doesn't neccessarily mean "I'm gonna spam you", unless you have evidence?

It does when microsoft is using it, as proven by every piece of software that they've written in the past decade.

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