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Mozilla claims Apple, Google and Microsoft force users to use default browsers
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#312Earlier quoted context omitted.
You don’t have to use a Microsoft account if you’re installing Windows 10 and it doesn’t have an internet connection when you run the wizard.
To install Windows 11 without a Microsoft account involves bringing up a command prompt in the middle of the installation process and typing some magic incantations. It's clearly not what Microsoft wants users to be doing.
FWIW I didn't have to do this on a Lenovo Thinkpad that I installed last month.
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#313Hmm, I’m reading this on my apple iPhone using Orion - not really had any interest in using Mozilla for years ! I use mostly safari in my MacBook, but also use Firefox and chrome at times, safari is weapon of choice there
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#314Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Do you know typing "torrent" in the start menu doesn't find "qbittorrent"? In 2022. It sums it all. It's even worse. I want to open Notepad++ and begin to type N -> notepad.exe No -> notepad.exe Not -> Notepad++ Note -> notepad.exe Notep -> Notepad++ Notepa -> Notepad++ Notepad -> notepad.exe The times I actually wanted to open notepad.exe is exactly 0 but the stupid algorithm sees me mistakenly opening notepad.exe…
Ugh, Apple is guilty of this too in spotlight search. Actually worse, because it randomly changes after maybe 500ms, randomly, after typing a character, sometimes. N -> OneNote.app -> Then (maybe) quickly changes to Notes No -> Notes.app -> Then (maybe) changes to OneNote Not -> OneNote.app Note -> Notes.app etc
There's also Raycast [1], which is a f-r-e-e VC-funded alternative to Alfred that was mentioned by a sibling comment.
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#315> Google’s president of global affairs Kent Walker said that potential antitrust regulations "would impose one set of rules on American companies while giving a pass to foreign companies" and that they "would give the Federal Trade Commission and other government agencies unprecedented power over the design of consumer products". Walker added: "All of this would be a dramatic reversal of the approach that has made th…
Let me translate that:
Antitrust regulations "would impose rules that are bad for our bottom line, and would offer consumers choice."
"We got so big because of lax regulations and mergers like the Doubleclick merger that weren't stopped, and we still want to keep buying out any potential competitors."
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The win11 / Edge bullshit finally pushed me to migrate my last win machine to linux. I used to love Windows, nowadays it just makes me bitter. Do you know typing "torrent" in the start menu doesn't find "qbittorrent"? In 2022. It sums it all. And the acquisitions... I've had countless minecraft sessions ruined because of microsoft account / store issues. Don't even get me started on realms and the chat policing bulls…
I don't get the hate on Edge. I use it daily and am very happy. Not the least, it includes some cool security features, i.e., sandboxing at the OS-level https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pr...
All those security features with 0 privacy. Refer: https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf
The research concluded that Microsoft Edge is the most invasive, along with Yandex.
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#317They're right, recently I've installed some Windows update for my parents and I had to reject like 5 suggested changes - installing Office trial, switching default browser to Edge yet again, and more. But this goes way beyond the browsers - I've never explicitly installed Keychain on my iphone and yet it shows as an option next to 1password every time I fill in a password field. Google calendar asks me to install an…
The win11 / Edge bullshit finally pushed me to migrate my last win machine to linux. I used to love Windows, nowadays it just makes me bitter. Do you know typing "torrent" in the start menu doesn't find "qbittorrent"? In 2022. It sums it all. And the acquisitions... I've had countless minecraft sessions ruined because of microsoft account / store issues. Don't even get me started on realms and the chat policing bulls…
I moved away from Windows for the same reason. Edge is a highly anti-competitive and privacy invasive browser. I'm surprised people don't care as long as the data exploitation is not directly visible to them.
Not to mention their new loan scams. Edge is a spyware/adware first and browser second.
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#318Mozilla should build a better browser and fix their marketing if they want to gain back market share. Other browsers have managed to find ways to gain market share. I mean Brave has grown extremely rapidly headed by the ousted Mozilla CEO during Mozilla's decline
Brave has so few users that Wikimedia doesn’t even list them on the summary table. They get more hits from Apple Mail. https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#all-sit... Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1102/
Brave has 55 million MAU. That is huge for a browser that's just 3 years old.
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#319Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Do you know typing "torrent" in the start menu doesn't find "qbittorrent"? In 2022. It sums it all. It's even worse. I want to open Notepad++ and begin to type N -> notepad.exe No -> notepad.exe Not -> Notepad++ Note -> notepad.exe Notep -> Notepad++ Notepa -> Notepad++ Notepad -> notepad.exe The times I actually wanted to open notepad.exe is exactly 0 but the stupid algorithm sees me mistakenly opening notepad.exe…
At least you guys have software conflicts. I try to run "runemacs.exe" (I have no idea how you're supposed to run Emacs on Windows, but that's what I do), and it's: R -> "R, the project for statistical computing" (fair I suppose) Ru -> Run (what is "run"? It's that little dialog box from Windows 3.1 where you can type in an executable to run) Run -> Run Rune -> RuneScape (not something I have installed) Runem -> Some…
It sounds like you're trying to run an executable that's on your PATH. The start menu search does not apply fuzzy search to locations in the PATH environment variable (reasonably so, most of it is either going to be command line tools that need additional arguments and spawn a console window that instantly disappears or just junk that most users don't care about).
If you want fuzzy searching to work, add a shortcut in the start menu for runemacs by placing the shortcut in %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu
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define "the government" -- who and what exactly is controlling this supposed policy?
There's no conspiracy. Mostly think tanks, policy circles, and White House wonks over every successive Internet-age administration. All segments of the U.S. government pay close attention to, among many people, geopolitical analysis of all stripes, who can help them understand how to remain the world hegemon. The U.S. frequently commissions studies by outfits like Booz Allen Hamilton on geopolitical matters (you can…
The dissonance you are experiencing between what the government internally considers and what is externally debated is easily explained by two things.
1. Parliamentarians are legislators; they focus on laws, not policy.
2. Those policies have support from every party with significant representation. Hard to publicly debate it when everyone agrees.