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> They could literally destroy Microsoft if they started to hugely degrade the experience of Microsoft products on iOS and Android with dark patterns a la Micro
by maccard 4y ago
> They could literally destroy Microsoft if they started to hugely degrade the experience of Microsoft products on iOS and Android with dark patterns a la Microsoft. But they don't.
I disagree here. Despite me using firefox on my android device and it being set to my default browser, many apps will still open in chrome (usually google apps - maps, gmail, etc) despite me explicitly asking it _not_ to do that. It's also not clear that it's using chrome, as it's the "generic" browser modal. The way that google services are bundled together on android and have limited interop (Samsung and Google Pay regularly fight with each other on my device for "who is the default payment method", and google is _not_ happy to not be my default).
Google have been pushing manifest v3 despite massive objections, introducing undocumented "fair usage" limits [0], require third party cookies to use some of their services to download files (gmail, gdrive). Google are drowning in dark patterns.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35329135 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35329135
- hyperdimension 4y agoNot OP and unsure what happened to that link, but: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35329135 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35329135
- maccard 4y agoThanks, I botched pasting it.
- aembleton 4y agoLinks from Google maps and Gmail open in Firefox for me. I'm on android 13.