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They already push Chrome on you if you’re accessing a google property with Edge.
by eli 4y ago
They already push Chrome on you if you’re accessing a google property with Edge.
- Wowfunhappy 4y agoWell, yes, because it's Google's website. It would be quite different if Google's browser started modifying Microsoft's websites, as Microsoft is Google's.
- Yujf 4y agoIt is not modifying the website. It is microsofts browser that shows you stuff above the website.... I think both are absolutely disgusting
- wolpoli 4y agoWhat Microsoft has done here is certainly an escalation of what Google had been doing in recent years. Perhaps Google shouldn't have started being so aggressive with the popups to begin with. Yes, I think both are absolutely disgusting too.
- Wowfunhappy 4y agoI take your point that it isn't literally modifying the html of the web page—but if it was, wouldn't the result look exactly like this? Visually, the banner does not look like a part of the browser chrome, Microsoft put it in the web page's space. That area belongs to the website, browsers aren't supposed to mess with it!
- justinclift 4y agoWonder where that banner shows up in the DOM, in the dev tools console... ?
- Wowfunhappy 4y agoTo be clear, I suspect it doesn't show up in dev tools, presumably it's rendered as part of the browser UI. But visually it doesn't look that way!
- midoridensha 4y agoThey absolutely DO mess with it if you have an ad-blocker installed on your browser. Of course, the user explicitly installed the ad-blocker; the user didn't expect MS Edge to screw with the way the web page looks.
- eli 4y agoI don't think it's that different. Google has a pop up ad when using Gmail that asks you to "upgrade" to Chrome. Both are leveraging a near monopoly in something else to hard sell users on their browser.