Last year, Microsoft decided to remove all advertising from the Weather app. This decision was obviously welcomed by almost all of its users. Unfortunately, the happy days are over, and now those who use Microsoft Weather to check their local forecast for weather, polen, and historical statistics are also forced to watch ads. This is not a one-time thing, as the ads are both persistent and present in all subpages of the app.
Microsoft Weather comes with ads on both Windows 10 and Windows 11. In Windows 11, the user encounters ads quite frequently. Microsoft Edge also has ads, not to mention the aforementioned weather app. The ads were added via a server-side update, and there’s no way to escape them when using the app, as they appear on every page. Worse still, they’re also pinned, so scrolling down when possible doesn’t help either.
How to avoid these ads? On some systems, all you need to do is resize the app window to make it small enough for the ads to disappear. The change can’t be undone because Microsoft Weather, which was previously one of the many UWP apps introduced by the Redmond-based tech giant, is now a piece of Edge-based WebView code. So, all you need to do is load msn.com/weather into an Edge container.
Those interested in a different perspective on Microsoft’s iconic product should check out Paul Thurrott’s Windows Everywhere: The Rise and Fall of the Most Important Software Platform of All Time, which is available only on Kindle for $19.99.
