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It’s very uncool of Microsoft to avoid the users default browser and search engine choices, but I also don’t like Brave intercepting it, especially with their f
by leodriesch 5y ago
It’s very uncool of Microsoft to avoid the users default browser and search engine choices, but I also don’t like Brave intercepting it, especially with their financial incentives with brave search.
Imagine if Google would do the same. The outcry would be a lot higher, because Google is a bigger company. But in this case Brave is very similar to Google, just a lot smaller.
- undecisive 5y agoYeah, but most people are fine with (or at least resigned to) capitalism. What they object to is a lack of choice - especially when their choice is being actively subverted by a huge monopolistic entity (that said, if/when this feature does land, opt-in is definitely the way to go for Brave to show themselves to be completely non-scummy)
- KeepFlying 5y agoBut doesn't the interception just make it so when a URL fires for the first time you get a browser picker? Or do they force set it when you set your browser default? If it's the former then I'm totally in favor because there's a choice at least.
- bsclifton 5y agoIt's something you need to manually configure. We would like to have an option for Windows folks that want to enable - but it would always be off by default (opt-in). It's understood that enabling this is going against the OS defined behavior Worth noting that in order to offer a toggle, we'd need to get around the default protection (same as Firefox w/ setting default browser). People can only currently use this by going to the `Defaults` handler in Windows and replacing Edge themselves