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sure, when Microsoft manages to modify their competitors website it's "marketing", but when I do it it's a crime and I go to prison.
Why can't they stop users from downloading Chrome by suggesting Firefox π
Because Mozilla is going to push AI in its browser, too
Lmao that gave me a really good laugh. Its so real man, they just need your data so badly.
The "say no later" button is missing
Literally malware tactics from the year 2000.
I country with a working legislative would prevent a market leader from attempting to prevent consumers from exercising their freedom to choose. Oh well.
Tech regulation is such a joke that I struggle to take any of it seriously anymore. Google was found monopoly and they didnt issue a punishment because "it was long time ago and now there are AI browsers". Australia banning teenagers from social media instead of, you know, fixing social media for all people. It's like punching air yet if you personally break ToS or IP law you are criminally charged.
Just a reminder that you dont need to touch Edge to download a browser on w11.
With cmd:
Librewolf: winget install -e --id LibreWolf.LibreWolf
or
Firefox: winget install -e --id Mozilla.Firefox
But why touch win11 in the first place??
Not everyone is as far along in their journey to freedom.
Also some of us are stuck with necessary stupid software that has no Linux releases and doesn't run in proton/wine yet.
I've had great success with winboat for a lot of software including m365.
It's been years since I've used Windows at home, but I still have a Firefox installer exe hanging around on my server on the offchance I ever need to use it again. Thanks for showing me it's no longer necessary.
Did winget replace chocolatey?
winget ships with Windows by default, so it is a particularly good option for folks who don't want to modify their Windows computer much, or have limited permissions.
I understand that Winget is based on chocolatey to some degree.
I guess it's cool that Windows finally has an official package manager.
Yes. It is very little, very late.
But it was a huge quality of life relief to me, when I still had a Windows install to deal with.
Winget is still playing catch-up in my experience. Microsoft's own office365 winget package is broken constantly.
I had chances to peek into some of my friends' laptop and was surprised how many of them are using Edge. MS's strategy looks pretty stupid, but it's actually working.
I see no reason to use chrome over edge. Iβm a Firefox guy these days, but if I have to use a chromium browser, Iβm using edge.
Why not just plain chromium?
Well, assuming that you are on windows, it's a whole extra step.
Same shit, different color logo.
Edge is already installed for the half dozen times a year I need to specifically use a chromium-based browser.
Might I suggest vivaldi
shrug any major benefits of google branded chromium over microsoft branded chromium are a moot point to me since google curb stomped fully functional adblocking extensions.
People have always defaulted to the... default.
Whether that is safari on a mac or internet explorer, and now edge, on windows. And if you are already going to deal with chromium's bullshit... edge is perfectly fine.
I prefer Edge over Chrome, and if I had to choose one, Edge is definitely better. But gladly I don't have to choose one and never will. Been with Vivaldi for years after switching off FF.
They DESPERATELY want you to use Edge because they DESPERATELY want to watch what websites you visit, for how long, and what you click on. They want to know EVERYTHING about you:
What you buy, what you masturbate to, what you like and donβt like, how you vote, what you watch, what music you like, the clothes you wear, what you children are like, what movies you watch, who you knowβ¦ THEY WANT TO KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU SO THEY CAN USE IT AGAINST YOU: ADS. PROPAGANDA. VOTES. CONTROL.
WE ARE BEING FARMED
We are the product
They can do a lot of that now with Recall even if you use Chrome.
They also want you to use their browser because they want to direct you to bing/copilot and get ad revenue from all of your clicks.
Always have been... but Google is just as bad, so installing Chrome isn't going to help you there. Honestly, even FF or anything else on Windows wont even get you out of that fate. They've proven they take screen shots, likely log keypresses, etc.
This isn't new or even newsworthy anymore. Being okay with these sorts of things is like, literally part of EULA's and such for decades. And people willingly give up privacy in trade for whatever service or product they're choosing.
How long before windows is literally an edge browser with permanent copilot ?
I give it a year.
So ChromeOS?
Your computer won't even be a computer, just a display with an Internet connection to a data centre.
Didn't they get sued multiple times for pulling shit like this before?
Regulators were less friendly back then
When are they going to stop with these childish attempts?
When it stops working.
When a government musters up the guts to do their job and regulate corporations
