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Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Google

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Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Google

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Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Win11 to get people to ditch Chrome

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Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Google

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  • The fact that Microsoft's constantly more aggressive use of their OS platform to artificially push their search and cloud platforms hasn't triggered multiple huge antitrust cases is a pretty dire indicator of how little regulators are willing or able to safeguard the public from monopolistic behavior by large tech companies.

    • If you're thinking of the EU, it's probably just the vogonlike bureaucracy, so in about the time that Windows 12 comes out, they'll be ready. Can't say it bothers me, if Microsoft is attempting to take marketshare from Google, though.

      • Getting out of the Google frying pan and into the Microsoft fire is in no way better. Both options are exploitative anti-user monopolies, and both Chrome and Edge are the same browser engine under different corporate skins that aggressively violate your privacy in numerous ways for their own gain.

  • They need to ask the question "will you ever choose to use a Microsoft browser?" and then remember the answer and stop the nagging. For me the answer is no.

  • i know at some point i'm going to have to switch to linux but i'm lazy and really, really don't want to

    i give it like 3 years before i switch

  • At the moment I use Windows 10, in the past Windows 7 also along with Kubuntu and others. I think that W10 is the last usable OS from M$, because of this I am not going to update it to W11, the following W12 and the online version for monthly subscription, are going to gradually take over the user's sovereignty over their own PC, with absolute control over it. I am going to continue W10, the gutted version that I use, until support ends in 2025 (probably 2026-27 due to the large number of users), then we will see what there is then as an alternative. Maybe I'll install some distro in dual boot in the meantime, but being online 99% of the time, where the OS used is irrelevant, it doesn't bother me that much at the moment. Anyway I don't use Google or Bing for obvious reasons and none of their services.

  • I have been using Linux Mint in recent years, however the most recent version is quite buggy. It has regressed to 2014 levels of usability and I'm thinking about switching. The last LTS version worked great, best ever in fact. Not sure what explains the difference.

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