Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome
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Re: Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome
#2Google used same tactics to grow Chrome market share. Don’t hate the player, hate the game.
Re: Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome
#3Additional ideas for Edge's PMs: silently corrupt Chrome's binary at download time, and mark the website and the binary as dangerous.
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#4> “‘I hate saving money,’ said no one ever. Microsoft Edge is the best browser for online shopping.”
This is really cringe
Re: Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome
#5Additional ideas for Edge's PMs: silently corrupt Chrome's binary at download time, and mark the website and the binary as dangerous.
Better, use Youtube tactic and slow down the chrome processes by setting their priority lower, but make it look like it has normal one.
Re: Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome
#6Additional ideas for Edge's PMs: silently corrupt Chrome's binary at download time, and mark the website and the binary as dangerous.
Windows can force Chrome to use software rendering for "stability" reasons.
Re: Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome
#7Does anyone know if they're displaying similar popups on the Firefox download page?
Re: Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome
#8Does anyone know if they're displaying similar popups on the Firefox download page?
Firefox' market share is low enough that I'd be surprised if Microsoft wasted even one developer hour implementing this for Firefox downloads.
Re: Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome
#9Google used same tactics to grow Chrome market share. Don’t hate the player, hate the game.
I think it is totally ok to hate the player too.
Re: Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome
#10"Microsoft Edge runs on the same technology as Chrome, with the added trust of Microsoft."
They named their user tracking, telemetry, and "Buy Now, Pay Later" add-ons "trust"? That's really Orwellian.