Isn’t that a textbook antitrust violation?
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USA companies don't give a shit about antitrust anymore. Look at Amazon and Apple, the only places they get bit for their behavior are the European countries.
the only places they get bit for their behavior are the European countries.
Even then Apple has been barely bothered. The DMA is the first big test, Apple has clearly not complied in spirit, lets see if that’s allowed and nothing changes.
Yes but Microsoft learned once you start lining the pockets of the right people, nothing happens to you!
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These latest prompts ~~look like malware~~
Are malware.
The constant stream of this horseshit is why I abandoned Windows nonsense again.
If I continue to break the law with my car they will take it away.
MS should be forced to sell Bing+Edge as a separate entity.
Legitimately the only reason I still have a Windows 10 ISO and key sitting on my long term storage drive is because I fear that I may have to install it to use VR whenever I get a new kit.
Please Valve. Pretty please....
Actually, didn't Facebook buy the lens company Valve was donating to and working with to develop their new VR lens tech? I forgot about that. Another reason to hate Facebook. (I refuse to call it the M word.)
Before my PC died, my Index was working under Arch FWIW. Can't speak for other hardware though
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I still think it's wild that they just stole the name and bullied their way into keeping it and nothing bad happened.
“We value providing our customers with choice, so there is an option to dismiss the notification.”
Thank you daddy Microsoft for still letting me click "no" on your invasive popup ad with a dark pattern to make me change my system settings.
I wonder what would happen if Chrome asked the user to replace Onedrive with Google Drive on startup.
Microsoft convinced me to switch... to Linux
Nearing 6mo since I booted into my windows drive (been a daily user since 98)
malware like popup ads
What the difference between a virus and window? A virus is well maintained by its creator.
Nothing turns me off of a product or service like the maker begging and trying to trick me into using their wares. Once they start doing that I will usually end up using technically inferior things to avoid them a lot of the time.
Easy Solution: Linux, Firefox/LibreWolf, DuckDuckGo
Fuck Microsoft!
Ddg has content bubbles and tracking that you can stop.
Turn off location and you will still get results relevant to your area filling the page.
Good, let them fight each other to the death. In the meantime, we need to make sure we're all on the same page for reviving anti-monopoly laws in the USA.
Which means us Firefox users can have some popcorn 🍿
That is until they reach us. I hope they don't.
Someone from Airbnb and Ebay is running the show now. There is gonna be an enshitification speedrun on firefox coming.
I guess it's time to panic
Firefox users were too smug. This is the universe knocking them down a peg.
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Years ago I would have been pissed. But Google has gotten so bad that I don't have a problem with MS annoying people to get off of Google.
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Strangely, I have not seen this on Firefox with Unlock Origin.
Use Windows on the daily and still have never seen these at all, on multiple computers as well.
Generally I'd agree it's shitty behaviour though.
I looked at the links in the source and they’re Windows popups, not Chrome injections. Shitty reporting from the verge.
almost just as scummy though
I don’t disagree but damn, can we get some accurate reporting? No need to lie about how shitty Microsoft can be.
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*Laughs in Firefox*
They're doing this at the OS level, so Firefox can't protect you from that, the issue is with Windows. They could do the same to Firefox, they just don't bother.
laughs in Linux desktop
Why do people continue to put up with this? I don’t get any ads or bloatware like “Paint 3D” or “X Box” on Linux Mint. And Linux desktops are so easy to use now! Blows my mind that people tolerate these antics from Microsoft.
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cough install Linux
the only thing Bing is good for is for finding porn.
Not so much anymore. Bing and google are pretty shit nowadays (for most any searches). I've been getting more accurate search results with duckduckgo, but I'm still looking for a search engine with better results.
duckduckgo just uses bing on the backend doesnt it?
Duckduckgo –
We also maintain our own crawler (DuckDuckBot) and many indexes to support our results. Of course, we have more traditional links and images in our search results too, which we largely source from Bing. Our focus is synthesizing all these sources to create a superior search experience.
I use Duckduckgo for pic searches. I can easily go to the link of the pic. On the other hand, Google takes me to the site containing the pic.
Another concern of mine re Google is –
Say I'm searching re a car. The search results are riddled with carmechanic.com, carexpert.com, moderncar.com, carstoday.com and others. Idk if those are legit. There's been a lot of misinformation on the Net so I've been careful.
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