Microsoft embeds nagware into IE patch

Re:Microsoft embeds nagware into IE patch by ocdtrekkie on Thursday March 10, 2016 @07:49PM (#11263821)

You know how much Google nags about Chrome? When I signed into Gmail on a different computer, I got an EMAIL telling me Gmail is better on Chrome AND a blue nag bar at the top of Gmail asking me to download Chrome. And any time I sign into a new computer, I will get both nags.

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Re:Microsoft embeds nagware into IE patch by TrevorJ on Thursday March 10, 2016 @10:02PM (#11264386)

I've used Gmail on 4+ machines in a variety of browsers and have never ever seen that. You must be in the darkest A/B test timeline.

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Re:Microsoft embeds nagware into IE patch by Coincoin on Friday March 11, 2016 @12:28AM (#11264822)

That's weird because Google constantly threaten me that google.com will no longer work with my browser very soon and that if I want to continue using google.com I have to install Chrome.

Edit: Got confused. It's Chrome no longer having updates because of Vista on an old laptop.

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Re:Microsoft embeds nagware into IE patch by ars on Friday March 11, 2016 @12:37AM (#11264841)

What browser are you using?

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Re:Microsoft embeds nagware into IE patch by josteink on Friday March 11, 2016 @02:15AM (#11265163)

I tested with MSIE11 just now. http://imgur.com/a/3Uztr

I also tested with Firefox, but it seems they stopped pestering us FF-users now. For a long time though every single page owned by Google on the entire internets told Firefox users to "Upgrade your browser" (and yes, those words).

Guess once if by "upgrade" they meant to a new version of Firefox.

And then guess which browser my non-technical parents are using now, after I instructed them specifically to use Firefox to avoid problems?

Can you guess which company is now harvesting all their browsing data?

Do no evil indeed.

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Re:Microsoft embeds nagware into IE patch by Coincoin on Friday March 11, 2016 @02:14AM (#11265151)

I doubled checked and it seems I got confused. It's rather Chrome telling me it is no longer supported on Vista.

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Re:Microsoft embeds nagware into IE patch by reitanqild on Friday March 11, 2016 @05:16AM (#11265738)

Especially annoying when I use Firefox and they lie through their teeth about Chrome being better.

(Yes, I know I know I know, opinions. But still FF has TST while Chrome has not, as well as almost any other feature except sending every last keystroke to Google.)

And I say this as a heavy user of google (still), as someone who has defended Google+ here (ducks), -and I'd even go so far as to say I've been a fanboy until a couple of years ago.

If anyone from Google reads this: Please, please, please ask management to stop this. We don't need another browser monoculture where web designers think it is OK to design only for Chrome like they did during IEs reign.

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Re:Microsoft embeds nagware into IE patch by sridharpoduri on Thursday March 10, 2016 @11:02PM (#11264575)

I see this regularly too irrespective on browser/OS I use. I have been nagged on IE/Edge/Windows and Safari/OSX

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