Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu

Re:Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Window... by fsh on Monday February 10, 2020 @01:53PM (#22292017)

I don't see how showing "Still using Firefox?" can be seen as anything but a targeted anti-Firefox ad. The title is completely accurate.

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Re:Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Window... by Shendare on Monday February 10, 2020 @02:04PM (#22292106)

"Targeted" for me would imply that Windows is checking first to see whether Firefox is installed, and only showing the suggestion if so.

If this is just a general suggestion that gets pushed out to all Windows computers, then it's not so much targeted as merely questionable use of platform.

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Re:Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Window... by proactivesvcs on Monday February 10, 2020 @04:30PM (#22293597)

I would be very surprised if it was just pushed out irrespective of telemetry. Since Windows 10 is a mass-market operating system, I'd be surprised if 1% of their users had ever heard of Firefox.

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Re:Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Window... by Marsymars on Monday February 10, 2020 @07:05PM (#22294762)

Since Firefox usage share on Windows is >1%, I'd be pretty surprised if most of those users are inadvertently using Firefox without every having heard of it.

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Re:Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Window... by stinky613 on Monday February 10, 2020 @08:30PM (#22295187)

It shows up if Firefox is your default browser

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