Microsoft To Finally Stop Bugging Windows Users About Edge - But Only in Europe (theverge.com)
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- News link: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/06/03/011231/microsoft-to-finally-stop-bugging-windows-users-about-edge---but-only-in-europe
- Source link: https://www.theverge.com/news/678350/microsoft-dma-windows-10-11-bing-edge
> Microsoft's changes in response to the Digital Markets Act already included allowing Windows machines in the regions it covers to uninstall Edge and remove Bing results from Windows search, but now the list is growing in some meaningful ways. New features announced Monday for Microsoft Windows users in the European Economic Area (the EU plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway) include the option to uninstall the Microsoft Store and [1]avoid extra nags or prompts asking them to set Microsoft Edge as the default browser unless they choose to open it.
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> Additionally, setting a different browser, like Chrome, Firefox, Brave, or something else, will pin it to the taskbar unless the user chooses not to. While setting a different browser default already attaches it to a few link and file types like https and .html, now users in the EEA will see it apply to more types like "read," ftp, and .svg. The default browser changes are live for some users in the beta channel and are set to roll out widely on Windows 10 and Windows 11 in July.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/678350/microsoft-dma-windows-10-11-bing-edge
They had me at (Score:2)
Users...
Ridiculous (Score:1)
You know your has become way too large, powerful and ridiculous when it is mandating shit as COMPLETELY MUNDANE as pinning a web browser to a task bar (or not).
I mean....JFC man. Talk about "your sign".
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> You know your has become way too large,
is it ... "government"?
Cool, now also (Score:2)
Google won't be nagging you to use Chrome every time you visit Google, right? Apple won't restrict non-Safari browsers anymore, right? No?
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Google recommends their browser when you visit their site.
That's different from prompting a user to change their browser, that they explicitly installed and set as default, every time they install an unrelated security update for their operating system. Even worse when the default action is to change the existing defaults, with the only way to not do so being a small blue coloured link with a blue background.
Now, can they stop the Office 365, One Drive and Copilot nags too?
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> Google recommends their browser when you visit their site.
I'm in the EU and I don't see that, nor when logging in. I even disabled all addon's to make sure I didn't miss it.
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> Google won't be nagging you to use Chrome every time you visit Google, right?
> Apple won't restrict non-Safari browsers anymore, right?
> No?
Just tried google.com with firefox and all add-ons inactivated and all I get is the cookies/log in screen where the first option is reject all; click thru and there's no mention of chrome anywhere. I even tried logging in to my google account and there's no mention of chrome. I'm in the EU so I'll guess that' s the difference.
I have no Idea about apple.
I'm sorry, not sorry. (Score:3)
I was using chromium to login to outlook.com and it wasn't working. I thought MS was trying to force me to use edge. I finally tried edge and it still wasn't working. I finally figured out MS was only allowing the outlook app to work. I'm sorry for thinking MS was trying to force me to use edge.
Using a Mac (Score:1)
Problem solved.
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Using Slackware and BSD on my backup server, problem solved for this and a whole other set of issues that one gets with proprietary operating systems :)
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Google bugs me a few times a week to use Chrome on iOS because I use the Gmail app...