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I also then wonder how many people go out and install Chrome. Edge is bundled in. It's the default. Going out and installing Chrome would be considered an ev

• ocdtrekkie 3y ago
  This is where Google's multiple monopolies go in. If you have a Gmail account and try to use it on another browser you will get a constant barrage of popups and banners pushing you to Chrome. YouTube, same deal. If they can trick a user just once into going "okay fine", the Google installer runs and now Google's managing your defaults for everything else. Which is why obviously Microsoft tries so hard to prevent installers from taking over the default browser setting now. I regularly encounter users who have actively malicious search providers and entire web browsers they do not know how they got. Tricking people into changing over is very much a thing, and actually how Sundar became as popular as he is. People often forget that Sundar Pichai's entire claim to fame at Google was the Google Toolbar, which was snuck into Flash Player and Reader installs to hijack people's search provider. (The same bundled install trick was, of course, then adapted to growth hack Chrome's numbers as well.)