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I 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 a

• gigel82 5y ago
  I'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 ago
    Gotcha, 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 ago
  I've been using every version of windows since 3.1, literally never had it revert default browser settings on me