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I hate MS's stance on privacy like anyone else, but I have serious doubts about your post. This would be a very big thing if actually true. Most likely thing th
by gigel82 5y ago
I hate MS's stance on privacy like anyone else, but I have serious doubts about your post. This would be a very big thing if actually true. Most likely thing that happened was that you started Edge yourself, then clicked on the pop-up that sometimes shows up (regardless of updates installed) asking you to switch to "recommended settings" which replaces your default browser.
Yes, shitty dark patterns, but definitely not Windows Update replacing those settings behind your back.
- infamia 5y agoI don't know why you would doubt this. Windows updates have been doing this for decades, first with Internet Explorer when they were battling Netscape/Firefox and now (apparently) with Edge. edit: clarity
- gigel82 5y agoI've been running Windows since forever on hundreds of machines and this has literally never once happened to me. Not discounting your experience, just saying it doesn't match my own.
- infamia 5y agoGotcha, not discounting your experiences either. Every desktop engineer I've met (10's or 100's of thousands of workstations) were well aware of this long-standing, dark pattern (esp. after a med-large upgrades), and gnashed their teeth whenever it was discussed because of the extra work/complications it caused. Hopefully those bad times aren't coming back. I'm not hopeful though. For example, Microsoft's tactics preventing Firefox from changing the default browser reminds me a lot of the nasty, underhanded Microsoft from way back in the day. https://www.ghacks.net/2021/12/21/a-recent-windows-update-prevents-mozillas-workaround-to-set-firefox-as-the-default-browser/ https://www.ghacks.net/2021/12/21/a-recent-windows-update-pr...
- Beached 5y agoI've been using every version of windows since 3.1, literally never had it revert default browser settings on me