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Meanwhile, I've recently seen a few popups/banners from Google asking me to switch to Chrome. I think it's a bit disingenuous to conflate this with hijacking.

Meanwhile, I've recently seen a few popups/banners from Google asking me to switch to Chrome. I think it's a bit disingenuous to conflate this with hijacking. Also, I do not see the banner when I view the page in Edge. Displaying a banner outside of the page in a separate window (as is indicated in the article) is definitely not hijacking in any sense of the term.

hanselot 4y ago
So you attack the clueless person writing the article. The fact remains that by displaying that "pixel occupation window" or wtf ever you want to call it instead of intrusive spyware, you are proving to me that you are desperate and if you would resort to this you are not to be trusted. I guess that's not really relevant if you are in the boat that is using Edge in the first place.
leaf8937 4y ago
that is the hijacking. MS Edge injected anti-chrome content in chrome website. Chrome has not injected anti-MS on bing.com
- quink 4y ago
  From the article: > There's debate among those discussing the banner online whether the ad consists of code injected by Edge into Google's webpage, which would make it detectable and removable as part of the Document Object Model. > It has also been suggested that the ad may come from Edge as an interface element that's stacked atop the rendered web page. We believe this is the case. So technically not.
  - hgsgm 4y ago
    That's an implementation detail. What the user sees is clearly a faked up web page instead of the web page the user requested.
- Larrikin 4y ago
  I consider those sign in with Google prompts, to be far worse than what Microsoft is doing.
- hahamrfunnyguy 4y ago
  I don't see it as hijacking because it doesn't seem to interfere with the operation of the page or modify the content. In my view, it's the equivalent of displaying a toast notification or alert with the same information. Obnoxious but I wouldn't refer to it as hijacking.
hooverd 4y ago
I've seen those, but only on Google properties.

hanselot 4y ago

So you attack the clueless person writing the article. The fact remains that by displaying that "pixel occupation window" or wtf ever you want to call it instead of intrusive spyware, you are proving to me that you are desperate and if you would resort to this you are not to be trusted. I guess that's not really relevant if you are in the boat that is using Edge in the first place.

leaf8937 4y ago

that is the hijacking. MS Edge injected anti-chrome content in chrome website. Chrome has not injected anti-MS on bing.com

quink 4y ago
From the article: > There's debate among those discussing the banner online whether the ad consists of code injected by Edge into Google's webpage, which would make it detectable and removable as part of the Document Object Model. > It has also been suggested that the ad may come from Edge as an interface element that's stacked atop the rendered web page. We believe this is the case. So technically not.
- hgsgm 4y ago
  That's an implementation detail. What the user sees is clearly a faked up web page instead of the web page the user requested.
Larrikin 4y ago
I consider those sign in with Google prompts, to be far worse than what Microsoft is doing.
hahamrfunnyguy 4y ago
I don't see it as hijacking because it doesn't seem to interfere with the operation of the page or modify the content. In my view, it's the equivalent of displaying a toast notification or alert with the same information. Obnoxious but I wouldn't refer to it as hijacking.

hooverd 4y ago

I've seen those, but only on Google properties.