- Mozilla has issued a warning about Microsoft’s design practices, claiming that the company uses harmful design tactics to influence users to switch to its Edge browser.
- The report highlights how Microsoft interrupts the installation process of Google Chrome on Windows devices, promoting the security and privacy benefits of Edge.
- Mozilla calls for regulatory action to restore browser choice and competition across major platforms.
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Well there’s your problem!
Microsoft really wants someone to remind it of these days:
I like that part of firefox’s summary was that it’s free. Uh, yeah, they all are. Thanks Mozilla!
Opera originally wasn’t free.
Also, while it is chromium based, Vivaldi is excellent and is essentially a bunch of old Opera team members.
No, they are all available at no cost. Only Firefox is free software.
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There’s a name for free software with proprietary bits added: Proprietary software
It is the only Free software in that dialog though.
There are talks in the EU with the DMA about bringing this back.
Yup, they already forced Google to announce that they’ll add such a choice screen for the search engine and web browser on Android: https://www.neowin.net/news/google-will-add-new-search-and-browser-choice-screens-for-android-phones-in-europe/
It’s only a matter of time before Microsoft does so too.
Microsoft:
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.
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
Edge can do 4k netflix
With Edge, MS decided to re-implement some stuff through their own library. I don’t have an exhaustive list, but one particular thing is that for a while, SubtleCrypto (used for various operations within JavaScript) was present, but some mandatory algorithms were not available in Edge while they worked fine everywhere else (and maybe even in the non-chromium based Edge, which I don’t remember testing).
So, yes, there are differences beyond the integration of MS services. They are unlikely to matter to most people, but for dev it does reintroduce some weird quirks, as MS does.
Functionally they are the same. People that claim one is slower are just parroting what they’ve heard or experienced before
There are small annoying differences. The way it handles downloads is irritating. The settings menus are not well organized. There’s a big stupid Bing button unless you remove it. It randomly fails to honor the option to open PDFs in an external program. It’s nothing big, but if you’re forced to use it for work, it’s constantly annoying.
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?
google as well, while we’re at it.
Here!
Again, install Linux already and be done with this shit.
When Linux gets around to supporting all the games I like I will
It will never support 100% of games. Mainly due to extremly agresive anti cheats that are the same as root kits.
Alright, continue to suffer on Windows. Or fix it yourself.Edit: I should have taken a different approach. It is difficult for older games or games specifically made for the Windows System. However there are many efforts made by good people. Valve’s Proton is doing good things and Lutris is also making it easier. I am not expecting that all the games will run however there a few options that others made such as filing issues with the manufacturers or supporting projects that try to port it / fix it in some other way.
Linux users are what everyone says vegans are.
But they speak from a high a position of superiority and rightness.
I’d rather be vegan than a Windows user.
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.
they can go take a flying fuck at a rolling donut if they think I’m putting that on my system.
The only way to be serious about that is to not use Windows.
I’d like to flip to Linux, but I have an older nvidia card that doesn’t play well with it, so until I upgrade some hardware win 10 will have to do. At least I’m firewalled so I can block their shit when it tries shenanigans like that.
Sorry, team nobody on this one. You both suck and need to stop what you’re doing.
That’s small thinking. While Chrome is bad, this pop-up nonsense is much worse.
I would disagree about it being worse.
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 remember, something like 8 years ago, if you searched “chrome” on internet explorer, before showing you a proper link, they would show a patrocined link from microsoft that would install a “browser configuration protector” that would prevent you from changing any configuration, including of course the default browser.
I didn’t think anyone on this platform would be dumb enough to use Google Chrome anyways.
Jump scare warning
