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In other words, Microsoft nags you use their user tracking adware instead of Google's user tracking adware... I am indifferent to this. For what its worth, it
by brucethemoose2 3y ago
In other words, Microsoft nags you use their user tracking adware instead of Google's user tracking adware...
I am indifferent to this.
For what its worth, it doesn't seem to recognize Chromium derivatives like Cromite or Firefox derivatives like Mercury.
- JadeNB 3y ago> I am indifferent to this. Why? "The browser inserts itself into the browsing experience in a user-hostile way" is a bad slope to start down, even if the browser starts by inserting itself between one untrustworthy product and another.
- freyes 3y agoThis is two gang bands fighting on the street, there is no good guy here. Google is so annoying trying constantly to push you to use Chrome when you visit their websites
- Bud 3y ago[dead]
- CobrastanJorji 3y ago"Their" is an important word here. Google's website nags you when you visit Google's website. Microsoft's browser nags you when you visit Google's website.
- brucethemoose2 3y agoUsing Microsoft's operating system.
- CamperBob2 3y agoOn my computer.
- mordae 3y agoOh, is it? Just give M$ couple more years.
- gkbrk 3y agoIf it's your computer, you can just install an OS that doesn't do this. There are many alternatives.
- CamperBob2 3y agoTell it to the bank that owns my mortgage. Many people, including me, have no choice but to run Windows.
- gkbrk 3y agoYou bought a house and now the bank demands you use Windows? What? Assuming this is about "paying the bills" and using Windows at work; this is your employer/customer causing this issue for you by demanding Windows. Not Microsoft.
- CamperBob2 3y agoSo, are you hiring?
- thfuran 3y agoThey're not fighting in the street. Microsoft is using your house as a staging ground and requisitioning your belongings.
- CamperBob2 3y agoYou misspelled "commandeering," but, yeah.
- thfuran 3y agoAre you sure you didn't misspell "requisitioning"?
- CamperBob2 3y agoPretty sure, yep. We would also have accepted "hijacking" or "dragooning." "Requisitioning" implies that you still have the choice to refuse or disobey.
- thomastjeffery 3y agoThey aren't just fighting each other, they are fighting you.
- brucethemoose2 3y ago> bad slope to start down Windows is a bobsled on a long track, built on a mountain of anti-competitive, facing another mountain of anti-competitive we call Google. This feels like a drop in the bucket to me.
- JadeNB 3y ago> Windows is a bobsled on a long track, built on a mountain of anti-competitive. This feels like a drop in the bucket to me. Sure, but each drop fills more of the bucket. We'll never convert Microsoft into a user-friendly company, but there's no reason to give them a pass just because this drop of awful is part of a mountain of awful.
- smoldesu 3y agoThere are also personal computers that have no browser options. Ostensibly, Microsoft and Google are competing here, just abusing the horrible precedent of first-party control.
- brucethemoose2 3y ago> no reason to give them a pass They don't need a pass from privacy/tech enthusiasts. They are fighting over users who are mostly indifferent, and anyone with concerns over Edge and this behavior probably shouldn't use vanilla Chrome unless they have to for work or whatever. Hence the feeling that my personal distaste for this is pretty much irrelevant.
- zeroCalories 3y agoGoogle does this too, constantly harassing you to switch to Chrome if you use any Google product. Apple is constantly trying to show off their cool new music app if you use a Mac. Not saying it's good or bad, but we're way past that point.
- brucethemoose2 3y agoWhats worse, some Google services work very suboptimally in Firefox, serving a simplified page or whatever. I'm sure there are good technical reasons for this, but it seems suspicious.
- askiiart 3y agoI have serious doubts there are good technical reasons for this. For a few things maybe. But things as basic as Google Search itself have a worse interface on Firefox for no reason. There's an addon that "restores", so to speak, the Chrome interface, which works perfectly.
- JohnFen 3y agoI'll say it: it's unequivocally bad. It's not any less bad just because all the big guys are doing it.
- verdverm 3y agoThey also ignore your default browser settings, opening Edge for any link in the windows settings system, so annoying...