- 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!
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.
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.
Now sure how popular this is, but tbh,. Microsoft Edge is way better than Chrome. Yes I get it’s chromium underneath, and I also do agree. And no I don’t use Firefox, it doesn’t play well with our stack.
Firefox beats almost everything else at the moment. Edge managed to make itself worse than chrome. I don’t need a browser that detects a credit card form and injects a predatory lending scheme to take advantage of me, no thanks. Not even Google has steeped that low yet.
Wait, what’s this about lending??
The software tries to woo users into buy now pay later. The boring dystopia.
I have no idea what you mean by stack, but you definitely don’t deserve downvotes for this. You can use whatever you want.
It’s all good mate. I knew what I was getting myself into. Saying anything pro-Microsoft is a heresy here, and not bowing to Firefox is a penal offense!!
They are getting down voted because their choice of stack is being used as a means to absolve themselves of the responsibility of supporting the last available cross-platform alternative to anti-consumer, chromium based shit.
If they had just not mentioned it or said they just don’t like Firefox, there wouldn’t be down votes.
Anyone is free to use whatever they want, but the comment you’re responding to is just a shit take.
My last job used a stack that was unfriendly to firebox, but I still used Firefox as my main development browser so I could catch issues and work toward better interoperability.
Use a better stack
I’m sure they’ll get right on convincing their comment too ditch a bunch of suggested they’re heavily invested again. Should be easy and not a career limiting move at all.
Doesn’t matter, this is about the popup.
I love how Mozilla is warning you that you’re gonna have trouble using Chrome? It’s Forbes so I’m not bothering clicking but I can only assume that Mozilla is also warning that you’re gonna have a bad time trying to use Firefox.
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.
Can the EU just Thanos snap Microsoft out of existence with a quadrillion euro fine?
google as well, while we’re at it.
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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Oh no, it’s the consequences of my actions by putting all my eggs in one basket and giving a corporation incredible leverage.
Maybe they should derisk their infrastructure then…
I would love the mayhem that would ensue from Microsoft leaving Europe completely. Dumb fuckers in all those incompetent IT departments that have wasted countless hours of mine because they don’t understand jack shit of what they’re doing would be having strokes, and us geeks would be having a field day keeping essential stuff alive, like medical technology and power plants.
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How could they pull out of Europe if they straight up didn’t exist? I’m suggesting the European Union should fine them enough to go bankrupt.
They wouldn’t pay the fine that would bankrupt them they’d just cut there losses and abandon anything that was seised. They’re an American company and the Asian market is what there after nowadays anyway.
If you could cut a dead limb off to save the body, wouldn’t you? At the end of the day it depends on how the US and Europe handles civil cases across borders and Microsoft has a lot of ties with the US government.
Just a shame the US government’s been completely captured. It’s all rot from the top down.
It’s not all bad just the federal for the most part. We’re working on that but are politicians are as old as the hills. I believe they spend more time listening to corporate lobby pitches than reading the damn news but that’s our problem to deal with.
Most of the biggest tech giants have picked up jobs from homeland or the NSA at one point in time or another, Microsoft is just the most prevalent along with Facebook (meta).
I’m stuck with one of the most fucked state governments, too. Actually, it’s so bad I’ve been aiming to leave for a while, and I’ll likely be gone within the next six weeks ish.
Well I wish you luck. Moving is no fun IMO
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
Heh, didn’t take that number literally I guess
I didn’t think anyone on this platform would be dumb enough to use Google Chrome anyways.
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
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
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.
Edge can do 4k netflix
Microsoft
EdgeDeath GripMicrosoft:
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.
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!
