Mozilla has defeated Microsoft’s default browser protections in Windows

Re:Mozilla has defeated Microsoft’s default browser protecti... by antisthenes on Monday September 13, 2021 @04:20PM (#28516329)

> The great irony here is that we - technical people - have done this to ourselves. We opt out of telemetry (as we should IMO) as a default so out usage patterns never get sent to the mothership. So of course Windows gets dumbed down, options disappear, and the OS gets targeted at the normal folk.

There's no irony here. Even if every single technically apt user sent their feedback to Microsoft at once, it would still be drowned out by the 99% of the general population that clicks through everything without reading or adjusting.

It's not even close, and we shouldn't be giving MS the benefit of the doubt anymore, considering what they've done to Windows in the last 10 years. They did it deliberately, while hiding behind "improving user experience" and "security".

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Re:Mozilla has defeated Microsoft’s default browser protecti... by newsbinator on Monday September 13, 2021 @04:30PM (#28516470)

Heck people default to donating their organs if that’s the option that’s preset when they register for a driving license. Or the reverse if that’s the option that’s preset. It’s not even close: whatever is the default option, no matter how serious, the vast majority of people seem to shrug and get on with their day.

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Re:Mozilla has defeated Microsoft’s default browser protecti... by MonaroVXR on Monday September 13, 2021 @07:26PM (#28518226)

>Heck people default to donating their organs if that’s the option that’s preset when they register for a driving license

They do in the Netherlands

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