Is this the same as Microsoft was forced to do back in a way with Windows (and their Internet Explorer monopoly)? If I recall correctly it boosted other browsers greatly. … only to have Google to force feed “You should install Chrome” on every Google search page.
> … only to have Google to force feed “You should install Chrome” on every Google search page. It drives me insane whenever I get this "finish setting up your iPhone" emails from Google after signing in on my phone. How google continues to get away with such a heavy hand in pushing their products everywhere is beyond me. Yes I know they are being investigated, but it is seriously too late and the damage has been done…
Apple Adopts 6 of OWA's Browser Choice Architecture Recommendations
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Re: Apple Adopts 6 of OWA's Browser Choice Architecture Recommendations
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> … only to have Google to force feed “You should install Chrome” on every Google search page. It drives me insane whenever I get this "finish setting up your iPhone" emails from Google after signing in on my phone. How google continues to get away with such a heavy hand in pushing their products everywhere is beyond me. Yes I know they are being investigated, but it is seriously too late and the damage has been done…
Stop using Chrome. As long as people keep giving in, they are going to keep doing it. Stop rewarding bad behavior. Punish it, by uninstalling Chrome completely on all platforms.
But I have a critical plugin I use for work that is Chrome only.
Re: Apple Adopts 6 of OWA's Browser Choice Architecture Recommendations
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Yes, sorry, I should have mentioned: within the EU. The reality is, even though it's now theoretically possible for Chrome and Firefox to be properly ported here, it's practically impossible. At any rate it's not happening yet. Last I heard they decided against it as it would require all of the coding to be done within the EU! So Apple is still effectively blocking alternatives on its platform even here. It would be…
It's very much happening: Igalia blogged about the Chrome effort in https://blogs.igalia.com/gyuyoung/2024/08/08/chrome-ios-brow... and you can follow Gecko/Firefox progress in https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/cedar/shortlog and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1882872