Windows 10 nagging users with Bing advertisements (push alerts)

Post by skohan » Mon, May 31, 2021, 10:38 PM UTC

A4ET8a8uTh0 wrote: post #220

skohan wrote: post #190

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Maybe because it's an operating system you pay for, and it's more aggressive than competitors. > MS is looking at other tech companies that do this without any backlash and keeps wondering why they are singled out ... Why shouldn't they try if evey other company gets away woth it? Since when is MS late to the party on this one? They lost a huge anti-trust action for privileging their own browser decades ago. If anyth…

I disagree. I do apologize since the language I used may have been a little too much of a mental shortcut, but it was not intended as such. I am not arguing fairness. I am arguing that process and laws should apply and be applied the same way for all participants. I do not think that is such a radical idea. Frankly, we would all benefit, if justice was truly blind ( long term ).

Post by fartcannon » Tue, Jun 01, 2021, 12:10 AM UTC

testrun wrote: post #188

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Wine/Proton handles all that these days.

Not quite. Multi-player games with anti-cheat has a serious problem running on Proton.

Post by midoBB » Tue, Jun 01, 2021, 7:15 AM UTC

asddubs wrote: post #146

cyberge99 wrote: post #53

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Firefox is far from dead. I switched back to Firefox from Chrome and it’s been freeing. The extension migration was a pain, but I found almost everything I needed and purged stuff I didn’t.

i'm a firefox user, but firefox is 2,4% from being dead. that's still a lot of people but dangerously close to the kind of numbers where people stop bothering to test if their websites work in it (if they were even doing it to begin with, let's be honest)

Post by swiley » Tue, Jun 01, 2021, 12:34 PM UTC

midoBB wrote: post #225

asddubs wrote: post #146

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i'm a firefox user, but firefox is 2,4% from being dead. that's still a lot of people but dangerously close to the kind of numbers where people stop bothering to test if their websites work in it (if they were even doing it to begin with, let's be honest)

TBH at least in my part of the woods web devs test for Chrome, Safari and mobile Safari.

Post by zeusk » Tue, Jun 01, 2021, 10:45 PM UTC

kalleboo wrote: post #76

zeta0134 wrote: post #68

This month I picked up a Surface Go, which I've been eyeing for a while as a decent drawing tablet. There I learned the fantastic joys of "S Mode", which helpfully restricts the otherwise general purpose computer from running apps that aren't delivered through the Microsoft Store, forces the browser to Edge+Bing and requires you to sign in with a Microsoft Account before you can disable the nonsense. I jumped through…

> Microsoft... what happened? Intense jealousy of Apple