Re:Microsoft is now injecting full-size ads on Chrome website
by lolinder on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @05:13PM
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I can't believe I'm defending Google, but all of those things are on their own properties. Aggressive and user-hostile, yes, but they're not abusing their ownership of the browser to modify their competitor's site.
Re:Microsoft is now injecting full-size ads on Chrome website
by BizarreByte on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @05:17PM
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I won’t defend user hostile actions regardless of where it’s done. Google is a bad actor when it comes to abusing their position, so is MS.
I don’t however think there’s a strong argument to be made that MS is modifying the website unless they MITM it. It’s well within their right to make their browser display something they want it to in a specific situation.
Re:Microsoft is now injecting full-size ads on Chrome website
by World177 on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @11:15PM
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Google blocks ads from their competitors. [1] In the article, they state it’s because those companies are not following their standard, and are using too many resources. (Which they claim negatively impact device performance through metrics like battery performance)
In comparison, Microsoft implied in their advertisement that their browser is safer than Google’s because it has the “trust of Microsoft.”
[1] https://blog.chromium.org/2020/05/resource-heavy-ads-in-chro...
Google has never injected an ad from what I know, but they’re bad actors too.
- They push chrome when using Google via Edge
- If you login from Edge or IE the security warning email includes a huge ad for Chrome, or at least it did.
- On iOS they refuse to let you simply open links from YouTube in safari. They always prompt about what browser you want to use and ignore the default. The prompt is obnoxious, designed to make you misclick, and the app never remembers your choice.