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Re:Bing is now Microsoft Bing as the search engine gets a re... by grugagag on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @11:19AM (#24698600)
Windows 10 keeps on installing Edge and luring me to set it the default web browser. It even looks exactly like chrome so users like my mom unknowingly start using it. I find that very deceptive.

Windows 10 is a horrible OS as far as I can tell. It tries to do things for me that I don't want to and I have to spend a few days to remove all the crap and bloat on a fresh setup then I have to figure out how to stop services that try to update and remove all my changes. I am using Windows 10 strictly for work otherwise I'd not touch it with a 10 foot pole. It's sad to see so many young people embrace Microsoft but I know their relationship won't last, I was one of them years and years ago.

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Re:Bing is now Microsoft Bing as the search engine gets a re... by basch on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @12:23PM (#24699463)
>so users like my mom unknowingly start using it. I find that very deceptive.

Which is exactly how Chrome got so popular. Two wrongs and all.

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Re:Bing is now Microsoft Bing as the search engine gets a re... by grugagag on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @01:06PM (#24700050)
That's not my experience. I'm no longer using Chrome as a daily driver, but when I first installed Chrome it was because IE was extremely unusable buggy and fell be hind a lot at the time and FF was great and all but a bit slow and and eating a lot of RAM. Chrome was fast and light

I remember seeing memes about what Internet Explorer: Q:What is IE good for? A:To search and install Chrome.

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Re:Bing is now Microsoft Bing as the search engine gets a re... by basch on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @01:37PM (#24700368)
Thats anecdotal and the memes were after it got popular.

Just because many of us purposely installed chrome, doesnt disprove that Google used many dark patterns to get people to click buttons or bundle it with other installs early on. Back then, Chrome used many of the same tactics as Yahoo and Ask toolbars, and even today the google.com home page warns you as if google doesnt work right in other browsers.

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Re:Bing is now Microsoft Bing as the search engine gets a re... by grugagag on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @04:27PM (#24701991)
You might be right but I personally installed Chrome because I wanted to. Well, first to try it then to replace IE on other computers. I'm sure they abused dark patterns as well as the whole industry almost never hesitate to do so.
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