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