I was waiting for someone to make that excuse. No, the banners are solely the EUs doing. Their solution to the problem resulted in the banners, so they get the

I was waiting for someone to make that excuse. No, the banners are solely the EUs doing. Their solution to the problem resulted in the banners, so they get the blame. > I think that giving a set of options on first install for preferences like browser is a great thing for the EU to enforce personally. It would have been great in the 90s/2000s. They did it about 10 years too late where everybody downloads whatever browser they want anyway. For most people that would be Chrome. The whole thing only exists because Opera couldn't compete and made a stink about it.