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.”