Microsoft really wants someone to remind it of these days:
this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2024
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I like that part of firefox's summary was that it's free. Uh, yeah, they all are. Thanks Mozilla!
Well, its not proprietary
Opera originally wasn't free.
Also, while it is chromium based, Vivaldi is excellent and is essentially a bunch of old Opera team members.
It is the only Free software in that dialog though.
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Honestly surprised Opera and Mozilla don't strike again together
Opera gave up a long time ago when they abandoned Presto. Today it is owned by some Chinese company, and they are just chasing the latest buzzwords, crypto, AI, you name it.
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Microsoft:
Microsoft really trying to get away with what it did in the browser wars again, but it's probably gonna turn out on for them this time
So Microsoft just does the same shit they've done a hundred times before and have been penalized for a hundred times before.
Give them a few billion dollars fine.
Jail those managers that made this decision
THAT will make sure they will start behaving. If not, it's all just "please don't" and Microsoft being "suuuuurely we would never ever!"
Fuck Microsoft
have been penalized for a hundred times before
That's where you're wrong. The last time they shoveled their browser at us in clearly anti-competitive ways they were found guilty and then ... nothing. Essential software or some such, and nothing.
So no, they haven't been penalized; not on their Sherman offence, and here they go repeating it.
Hammer them.
The clickbait in this article is so bad, I thought it was a security vulnerability or something, but it's just something else related to Mozilla again.
I'm still genuinely curious if Mozilla is going to actually accept a renewal for the search deal with Google, or if they're actually going to start practicing with a praise and try implementing that search engine selection screen.
practicing with a praise
Not sure what you mean but maybe you were going for "practicing what they preach"?
or if they're actually going to start practicing with a praise and try implementing that search engine selection screen.
You already can change the default search engine?
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Whenever I'm forced to use Edge for work it reminds me of old IE that your grandma installed the Ask toolbar in. Functions about the same too.
Is there any material difference between Edge and Chrome? I'm forced to use either of them for work and as far as I can tell they perform the same
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Legit malware shown in this article. Imagine an operating system/browser injecting what are essentially ads into your webpage. Whether or not chrome or edge are any good these are scummy tactics by microsoft
Yeah MS has never done anything like that before...
Looks at MS Word in early nineties...
Look at what they did with Internet Explorer. Same shit.
Can the EU just Thanos snap Microsoft out of existence with a quadrillion euro fine?
That would be a sure fire way to get Microsoft to pull completely out of Europe leaving thousands of companies without support and a heafty unpaid fine setting on the table.
It would actually be beneficial for Microsoft to abandon the server farms and offices leaving workers with an email stating the situation and their new job status.
You think Microsoft has no assets in Europe? Asset seizure is a sure fire way to get paid when companies refuse to cooperate.
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You think they make no profits in Europe? Why would they be here if they didn't?
I think it's fair to assume their profits are less than 1 quadrillion euros
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Again, install Linux already and be done with this shit.
That's always so easy to say, isn't it?
Far easier to do too. I did one of each last month and there's no question that the Windows setup experience is terrible in comparison.
The software and hardware I'm using won't work on Linux.
And that's the part that everyone ignores. They'll say open a VM or use wine or there's an open source alternative. But if I'm going to run native Linux just to open a windows VM to run the primary software I use, what's the point? I'm not bashing on either side. I use Windows when I need and, and go back to Linux when I'm finished, but that's because that's the solution that works for me.
File the required issues with those manufacturers then. Support for Linux is trivially easy to add compared to Microsoft: the kernel sources and stuff to create your modules are right there.
That works until they explicitly say they won’t support Linux, eg. Adobe, Bungie, GoXLR, etc
Plenty of companies know that it’s trivial to implement. They just simply do not care, nor will they ever care.
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Same here, to a certain extent.
I was referring only to Linux's lack of bullshittery in comparison to Windows, nothing else.
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Linux users are what everyone says vegans are.
But they speak from a high a position of superiority and rightness.
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What is this clickbait bullshit? Here I was expecting more arguments I could use to move people away from Chrome, but the warning is just typical Microsoft trying to promote their own garbage browser.
This is a super clickbait title.
Yes, what Microsoft does is pretty shitty but the article sounds like there's some massive zero day hack or something to watch out for when it's just standard business practice.
Agreed. I would've changed it except I had in the back of my mind that the post title needed to match the article title, but now I don't see that in the rules. Oh well. But yeah the article is not really about Chrome at all.
You know what else is different about Lemmy? Post titles are editable!
I think this will ultimately backfire on them I gave the bing app a chance on my phone and I got so tired of the try edge interruptions I unninstalled everything Microsoft.
The search was actually decent but the constant nagging was very annoying.
Use ecosia. It's the same search engine except it respects your privacy and plants trees with you as revenue.
I updated my proton app recently and as I was updating it Microsoft edge updater tried installing updates as well for some reason.
I don't even have edge installed. I simply blocked it from having net access but still, they can go take a flying fuck at a rolling donut if they think I'm putting that on my system.
One time I uninstalled Edge and Cortana from Win10. Some time later Windows Updates started to fail and would rollback. This continued for 6 months and by that time I stopped giving a shit since Win10 is malware anyway.
Another few months went by and I was bored enough to follow the usually useless links to MS knowledge base articles that are given after a failed update.
After another week of trying everything I came across or could think of, I downloaded the install for Edge and reinstalled. Ran the Windows Update again and the god damned thing was successful. Apparently it contained an Edge-specific update but didn't check if it was installed or not and fail gracefully if it was the latter.
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Sorry, team nobody on this one. You both suck and need to stop what you're doing.
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I didn't think anyone on this platform would be dumb enough to use Google Chrome anyways.
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