I just got this popup while playing New vegas. I don’t even use chrome, i’ve switched to firefox. How can this be allowed? Also, this is Win10
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Microsoft clearly uses dark patterns and FUD to lure you into using Bing.
As long as they’re using legal loopholes (or downright do not care because they have enough money to pay any fines) you cannot do anything against it except not using their OS.
MS is a spam company and it’s turned me into a daily Linux user.
Ironic, because I used to use Bing (over Google) and all this kind of bullshit - especially aggressively pushing their chat bot - pushed me away (to DDG).
It’s getting REALLY difficult to tell normal operation and viruses apart.
Because in all practical senses, windows is a virus.
Viruses at their core are programs which do things against your will on your own machine. Which is bad.
However, that is exactly what windows does. But like the boiling frog, people for some reason are okay with more bullshit from Microsoft and less control of their own devices with every passing update and year.
Complaining on
redditsocial media does nothing. Switching to Linux gives you back control and will be better for everyone in the long run.Is this an attack or a Windows update?
What company was it that lost an antitrust lawsuit again? It was something like Macrosoft? Microphone? idr
It is because you agreed to to the terms and conditions of the Windows operating system
Why wouldn’t it be legal? You are using their product and they put out a notification on it asking if you want to use one of their products. Why would that be illegal!?
Like I understand people not liking it, but illegal?
These posts are just getting insane at this point.
It is illegal in Europe.
What is illegal? Asking you if you want to change your default search engine? That doesn’t sound illegal to me so I wonder what law is causing it to be illegal.
“I will make it legal.”
-Darth CEOus
Run a debloat script for windows from christitustech. And if you want to start from fresh install w10/11 ltsb/ltsc and run the debloat script, that is the safest option, if you don’t want to swap to Linux.
I especially love that it was blurry. I shit you not, a blurry popup telling me to switch the search engine like some 2010 malware.
They got in trouble for setting internet explorer as the default and had to pop a prompt when you installed windows a while ago.
I don’t think asking if you want to is illegal though. But it could be as they are using their ownership of the operating system to push you towards their other products.
Lets just rename this community to MicrosoftTechSupport and be done with it.
In Europe it isn’t. But I got it too. Even worse, my default browser was changed to Bing after an update.
Even worse, my default browser was changed to Bing after an update.
Is this not literally quite almost what their first big antitrust case was all about (shipping their OS together with Internet Explorer, back then) that almost got them broken up by the state?
In a light version, yes.
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European here. Which law is this breaking, exactly? Pretty sure advertising is legal
It’s no ad, it’s nudging. Without being asked even. They don’t show you a list of search engines to set as default, they ask you to switch to Bing. My system just switched to Bing without asking.
It’s no ad, it’s nudging. Without being asked even. They don’t show you a list of search engines to set as default, they ask you to switch to Bing. My system just switched to Bing without asking.
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I really don’t know why I bother reading the comments on any windows posts. It’s just full of Linux users trying to convert people.
It’s not going to happen. Most of us use our computers for leisure, not to have to find workarounds for most anything.
That’s an odd way of saying “I don’t like Arch users”
I don’t know why lemmy bothers having a specific instance for PC and Linux if the communities for everything from technology to mildly infuriating is just going to be people bitching about Windows.
Really feels like the quality of lemmy has gone down tbh, you can’t go anywhere without someone posting “Windows Bad.” The population grew but it was only the ones who cared about the API changes which just so happened to be the Linux community apparently.
I use Linux on everything that’s not my main desktop and it still pisses me off to see it just flooding everywhere.
Since the antitrust laws don’t exist any more, it’s legal, yes. If you don’t want that, you have to switch to Linux.
Use Linux and quit worrying about this kind of shit.
That’s like telling a smoker “just stop smoking and you’ll be healthier”.
A joke will at least get more positive reactions. It may convey the same message. -sad penguin noises-
Did you just tell someone to smile more but in text form?
Perfectly legal… it’s just advertising. If they switch you without your consent then yes it’s illegal.
" Microsoft Service Agreement"
/shudder
