Microsoft is now injecting full-size ads on Chrome website

Re:Microsoft is now injecting full-size ads on Chrome website by morelinks on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @03:48PM (#34886991)

How would MSFT react if Google injected a “GOOGLE DOCS IS FREE AND BETTER!” banner on Microsoft365 pages loaded in Chrome? Disgusting tactic.

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Re:Microsoft is now injecting full-size ads on Chrome website by Brendinooo on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @04:15PM (#34887479)

Don't call anyone a weenie though, that'll get you in antitrust trouble for sure.

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/15/technology/microsoft-inve...

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Re:Microsoft is now injecting full-size ads on Chrome website by Spivak on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @03:52PM (#34887068)

Their reaction: "Oh damn, that's good idea, let me call some PMs."

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Re:Microsoft is now injecting full-size ads on Chrome website by TremendousJudge on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @03:51PM (#34887056)

the way they inject "CHROME IS BETTER" when you visit google.com?

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Re:Microsoft is now injecting full-size ads on Chrome website by wvenable on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @03:54PM (#34887108)

Are you saying someone shouldn't be able to put whatever they want on their own website? Even gasp market their own products on their own website?

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Re:Microsoft is now injecting full-size ads on Chrome website by Dylan16807 on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @09:51PM (#34891007)

Yes. I am saying that. Because it's an abuse of a monopolistic position.

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Re:Microsoft is now injecting full-size ads on Chrome website by wvenable on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @12:36PM (#34899346)

How so?

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Re:Microsoft is now injecting full-size ads on Chrome website by thfuran on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @03:53PM (#34887091)

No, not like that. That's Google's site.

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Re:Microsoft is now injecting full-size ads on Chrome website by Arainach on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @03:54PM (#34887115)

That's not injected. That's rendered by Google on the sites they control.

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Re:Microsoft is now injecting full-size ads on Chrome website by mrits on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @04:11PM (#34887403)

The main issue here isn't propaganda.

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Re:Microsoft is now injecting full-size ads on Chrome website by navigate8310 on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @05:02PM (#34888204)

How can they inject since MITM is impossible when the site is served via a TLS cert?

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Re:Microsoft is now injecting full-size ads on Chrome website by phoe-krk on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @05:11PM (#34888325)

TLS is worthless if they control the software that is rendering the website after it's decrypted. And, well, they do control Edge.

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Re:Microsoft is now injecting full-size ads on Chrome website by bogwog on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @05:11PM (#34888331)

Because Google owns the browser and can render whatever they want onto your screen.

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Re:Microsoft is now injecting full-size ads on Chrome website by sebzim4500 on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @05:57PM (#34888921)

Google does not have clean hands here, they paid to have chrome bundled with all kinds of scummy (and not so scummy) software and made it really difficult not to accidentally install.

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Re:Microsoft is now injecting full-size ads on Chrome website by kibwen on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @07:43PM (#34889928)

This is something a lot of people forget. Among tech folks the narrative was always "Chrome won because it was faster", but in the real world most people got Chrome for the first time because they installed a Java or Flash update and Google paid for Chrome to automatically be installed and instantly set itself as the default browser (this is literally how I got Chrome installed for the first time, against my will, via a Flash update).

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