Technology

59374 readers

3463 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

570

Google Chrome Warning Issued For All Windows Users (www.forbes.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

127 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.

Archive link: https://archive.ph/koBY6

Chrome

Windows

Well there's your problem!

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 166 points 9 months ago (29 children)

Microsoft really wants someone to remind it of these days:

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (17 children)

I don't remember that. Where is it from?

Microsoft never liked competing browsers (not even in the pre-IE6 era when all they had was crap), so it's hard to believe it came from them.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 9 months ago (16 children)

EU fined the sh1t out of them, and somebody in the regulatory body at the time realized that was not enough. So they were ordered to present the user with a choice of a browser during the OS install.

What I really want to know is why and how it went away.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

What I really want to know is why and how it went away.

The move was in place because of the fear that IE was becoming a monopoly. Now Edge is very very far from the most popular browser, and Google Chrome is looking like the overwhelmingly dominant player, there's no reason to make MS prompt people to download rival products anymore.

load more comments (15 replies)

load more comments (26 replies)