• 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!

  • GigglyBobble
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    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.

    • @where_am_i@sh.itjust.works
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      675 months ago

      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.

        • Doubletwist
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          -65 months ago

          No, but apparently people are going to be a cunt about it if one chooses not to say it.

          • @Specal@lemmy.world
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            165 months ago

            Because it’s looks stupid to use the word whilst censoring it, say it or don’t say it. No point in trying to pretend you’re not saying it.

        • @where_am_i@sh.itjust.works
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          -165 months ago

          I’d say I got a good habit. Too much of the internet randomly filters “obscenity”. Whenever that happens it seems the devs are too fvkin damb to properly implement it.

          • @Melt@lemm.ee
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            165 months ago

            Yeah god damn the censor shit, even on fucking picture, they censor the swear words to fucking hell by scribing over it

          • @HelloHotel@lemm.ee
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            Its verry much a good habit. However, You are free to speak your mind here. The fact you use sh1t (falsely) implies the idea that your the community is not allowed to speak your their mind. So people got mad 🫤.

            EDIT: grammar / clarity

      • @Patch@feddit.uk
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        185 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.

      • @neclimdul@lemmy.world
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        95 months ago

        INAL but my understanding was a lot of the fines and penalties hung on IE being part of the OS. I think it was the update functionality but don’t quote me.

        So with some legal technicalities, later versions of windows made it “not” part of the OS just a bundled application. A legal distinction without meaning but it meant they didn’t need to do these things anymore.

        • @flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works
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          65 months ago

          The great joke is they are making the same mistakes again with edge, unfortunately the American justice system is a shambles these days so it’s probably down to the EU to take the moral high ground.

          Microsoft appear to be exposed to monopolistic penalties in several markets currently: browsers, AI / search, teams and office come to mind (although competitors are lacking, here)

      • Madis
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        35 months ago

        I think it will be back this March with the new laws (Digital Markets Act).