Over the Edge 2.0: Microsoft’s Design Tactics Still Undermine Browser Choice – Mozilla Research
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Two years ago, Mozilla published Over the Edge: How Microsoft’s Design Tactics Compromise Free Browser Choice, a report by independent researchers Harry Brignull and Cennydd Bowles documenting how Microsoft used ...
  • adarza@piefed.caEnglish
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    3 days ago

    i just start with the basic rule of: whatever they want or suggest or default to, the opposite is probably what should be configured or answered instead.

    • MangoCats@feddit.itEnglish
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      3 days ago

      I work with a lot of fresh-out-of-box windows PCs. When I don’t immediately wipe them completely for a Debian install, the first thing I do in Windows is fire up Edge, download and install chrome and set it as default browser, then delete all Edge shortcuts.

      Several iterations of Windows stubbornly re-install the Edge shortcuts, luckily Google can quickly help you make the deletions stick longer. Of course, if they don’t want to respect our choices of how we want our desktop configured, we also have a choice of desktops and OSs.

        • MangoCats@feddit.itEnglish
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          3 days ago

          Personal preference, Chrome has been a more consistent reliable performer for me over the years.

          Yes, Google is evil, but really - everything you interact with on the web is evil, Firefox isn’t protecting you - at least Google occasionally makes it more obvious the scope and depth of your personal information that is being harvested by “the system.”

  • stevestevesteve@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    These harmful patterns exist all throughout the operating system. They’re so incredibly frustrating and obviously anti-user, and it is these intentional design decisions that have pushed me away from windows on all of my devices

      • sem@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Ahem*

        "I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

        Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

        There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!"