Re:Microsoft hijacks Google's Chrome download page to beg yo...
by hanselot on Thursday February 23, 2023 @12:31PM
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So you attack the clueless person writing the article.
The fact remains that by displaying that "pixel occupation window" or wtf ever you want to call it instead of intrusive spyware, you are proving to me that you are desperate and if you would resort to this you are not to be trusted.
I guess that's not really relevant if you are in the boat that is using Edge in the first place.
Re:Microsoft hijacks Google's Chrome download page to beg yo...
by leaf8937 on Thursday February 23, 2023 @12:46PM
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that is the hijacking. MS Edge injected anti-chrome content in chrome website. Chrome has not injected anti-MS on bing.com
Re:Microsoft hijacks Google's Chrome download page to beg yo...
by quink on Thursday February 23, 2023 @02:05PM
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From the article:
> There's debate among those discussing the banner online whether the ad consists of code injected by Edge into Google's webpage, which would make it detectable and removable as part of the Document Object Model.
> It has also been suggested that the ad may come from Edge as an interface element that's stacked atop the rendered web page. We believe this is the case.
So technically not.
Re:Microsoft hijacks Google's Chrome download page to beg yo...
by hgsgm on Thursday February 23, 2023 @02:55PM
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That's an implementation detail. What the user sees is clearly a faked up web page instead of the web page the user requested.
Re:Microsoft hijacks Google's Chrome download page to beg yo...
by Larrikin on Thursday February 23, 2023 @09:12PM
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I consider those sign in with Google prompts, to be far worse than what Microsoft is doing.
Re:Microsoft hijacks Google's Chrome download page to beg yo...
by hahamrfunnyguy on Friday February 24, 2023 @04:41PM
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I don't see as hijacking way because it doesn't seem to interfere with the operation of the page or modify the content. In my view, it's the equivalent of displaying a toast notification or alert with the same information. Obnoxious but I wouldn't refer to it as hijacking.
I think it's a bit disingenuous to conflate this with hijacking. Also, I do not see the banner when I view the page in Edge. Displaying a banner outside of the page in a separate window (as is indicated in the article) is definitely not hijacking in any sense of the term.