Microsoft to force Chrome default search to Bing via Office365 ProPlus installer

Re:Microsoft to force Chrome default search to Bing via Offi... by raxxorrax on Thursday January 23, 2020 @09:21AM (#22127712)

It would be my personal nightmare if desktop OS' adapt this practice, although I fear at least Windows will do so in incremental steps. I think this will be the end of its dominance on desktops, but I have no doubts management at MS will try. So this would be a good and a bad thing.

And do you honestly believe a sandbox would have stopped MS changing the page?

That iOS isn't perfect is an understatement in my opinion. It has a nice UI, it usually works and my pads lie in my cabinet since I cannot do anything remotely interesting and productive with it.

I got my iOS devices for free and it still somehow feels like I got cheated on. Like these devices belong to Apple, not to me.

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Re:Microsoft to force Chrome default search to Bing via Offi... by AnimalMuppet on Thursday January 23, 2020 @04:49PM (#22132567)

> And do you honestly believe a sandbox would have stopped MS changing the page?

Depends on the sandbox. A real sandbox? Yes, it should stop Microsoft from changing the page. A sandbox built by Microsoft, that they're willing to circumvent for their own advantage? No; I expect that it won't stop Microsoft. To me, that makes their sandbox less trustworthy rather than making their browser more trustworthy.

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Re:Microsoft to force Chrome default search to Bing via Offi... by cmcd on Thursday January 23, 2020 @04:37PM (#22132423)

> And do you honestly believe a sandbox would have stopped MS changing the page?

That is how a sandbox works, Microsoft's installer would not be able to access configuration files for Chrome to change the settings.

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