{"id":965726,"date":"2026-05-17T02:29:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T02:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/965726\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T02:29:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T02:29:27","slug":"dear-asha-xbox-fan-desperately-wants-new-ceo-to-remove-irrelevant-ads-from-dashboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/965726\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Dear Asha&#8230;&#8217; &#8211; Xbox Fan Desperately Wants New CEO To Remove Irrelevant Ads From Dashboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"&#039;Dear Asha...&#039; - Xbox Fan Desperately Wants New CEO To Remove Irrelevant Ads From Dashboard\" href=\"https:\/\/images.purexbox.com\/9667ac52c35c7\/dear-asha-xbox-fan-desperately-wants-new-ceo-to-remove-irrelevant-ads-from-dashboard.large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/dear-asha-xbox-fan-desperately-wants-new-ceo-to-remove-irrelevant-ads-from-dashboard.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"'Dear Asha...' - Xbox Fan Desperately Wants New CEO To Remove Irrelevant Ads From Dashboard\"\/><\/a> Image: Xbox \/ Microsoft, McDonalds<\/p>\n<p>Xbox&#8217;s dashboard ads have long been a bit of a sore point amongst the fanbase. We see complaints about them crop up in waves \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/news\/2022\/10\/xbox-users-left-irritated-by-excessive-mw2-ads-on-the-dashboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">especially if a particularly annoying advert keeps appearing for various folks<\/a> \u2014 and today, one particular fan has begun pleading to new boss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/tags\/asha-sharma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Asha Sharma<\/a> to be rid of these irrelevant Xbox adverts.<\/p>\n<p>This time, the source of frustration is a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/news\/2022\/01\/random-xbox-has-got-us-craving-fries-with-this-mcdonalds-series-x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">McDonald&#8217;s<\/a> ad that&#8217;s begun appearing on the Xbox home screen &#8211; for a Spicy McCrispy, if you must know. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/news\/2024\/08\/xbox-attracts-controversy-over-new-mcdonalds-ad-on-the-dashboard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This isn&#8217;t the first time we&#8217;ve seen a dashboard advert for the popular fast food chain<\/a>, but it&#8217;s certainly riled this Xbox fan up:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"reddit-embed-bq\" style=\"height:500px\"><p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/xbox\/comments\/1tdem97\/dear_asha_please_remove_these_types_of_ads_off_my\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dear Asha, please remove these types of ads off my screen &#8211; Last I checked we can&#8217;t play anything on a McCrispy\u2122<\/a><br \/>by<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Ashamed_Squirrel777\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">u\/Ashamed_Squirrel777<\/a> in<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/xbox\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">xbox<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some of the responses here do have a few suggestions for their fellow, frustrated Xbox fan. One <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/xbox\/comments\/1tdem97\/comment\/olux45x\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web3x&amp;utm_name=web3xcss&amp;utm_term=1&amp;utm_content=share_button\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reddit<\/a> user suggests switching off personalised ads for a more Xbox product-focused ad experience; a suggestion someone else has <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/xbox\/comments\/1tdem97\/comment\/olv1ov5\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web3x&amp;utm_name=web3xcss&amp;utm_term=1&amp;utm_content=share_button\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">agreed with<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"reddit-embed-bq\"><p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/xbox\/comments\/1tdem97\/comment\/olux45x\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Comment<\/a><br \/>by<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Ashamed_Squirrel777\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">u\/Ashamed_Squirrel777<\/a> from discussion<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/xbox\/comments\/1tdem97\/dear_asha_please_remove_these_types_of_ads_off_my\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>in<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/xbox\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">xbox<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"reddit-embed-bq\"><p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/xbox\/comments\/1tdem97\/comment\/olv1ov5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Comment<\/a><br \/>by<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Ashamed_Squirrel777\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">u\/Ashamed_Squirrel777<\/a> from discussion<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/xbox\/comments\/1tdem97\/dear_asha_please_remove_these_types_of_ads_off_my\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>in<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/xbox\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">xbox<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Either way, the original poster has made their point clear to Asha Sharma that they don&#8217;t want to see things like this anymore &#8211; and it of course remains to be seen if the new Xbox boss sees \u2014 and would potentially respond to \u2014 something like this. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purexbox.com\/news\/2026\/04\/working-on-it-asha-sharma-confirms-dynamic-background-for-new-xbox-logo-is-in-the-works\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">She&#8217;s certainly been active online during the beginning of her new role<\/a>, so you never know!<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime though, it&#8217;s probably worth giving the above suggestion a whirl if this sort of thing is annoying you at the moment. It can&#8217;t hurt trying it to see if you spot more gaming-centric ads on the Xbox dashboard as a result.<\/p>\n<p>What do you make of this? Talk to us about this Maccies dashboard ad down below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text source\">[source <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/xbox\/comments\/1tdem97\/dear_asha_please_remove_these_types_of_ads_off_my\/\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/xbox\/comments\/1tdem97\/dear_asha_please_remove_these_types_of_ads_off_my\/\" target=\"_blank\">reddit.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1744921630_470_avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Ben Kerry\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ben is a News Writer at Pure Xbox, and is a fan of action, racing and straight-up shootin&#8217; in any Xbox game he can get his hands on. When he&#8217;s not clutching an Xbox controller like his life depends on it, Ben spends his time listening to music that&#8217;s far too old for him, watching football on the telly and probably eating somewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Xbox \/ Microsoft, McDonalds Xbox&#8217;s dashboard ads have long been a bit of a sore point amongst&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":965727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[227023,507,53,16,15,289,269659,292,291],"class_list":{"0":"post-965726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-asha-sharma","9":"tag-microsoft","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-xbox","14":"tag-xbox-dashboard","15":"tag-xbox-series-s","16":"tag-xbox-series-x"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116587565556001471","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}