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Re:Why Bother with uBlock Being Blocked in Chrome? Time to S... by codedokode on Monday November 27, 2023 @05:03AM (#38430455)
There is even more powerful marketing tool - preinstalling software. If you can pay to PC or phone makers to have your software preinstalled, then it is difficult to compete with you. It is the most reliable method of marketing.
Re:Why Bother with uBlock Being Blocked in Chrome? Time to S... by kibwen on Monday November 27, 2023 @09:23AM (#38432542)
Not even preinstalled. In the early days of Chrome, Google paid to have Chrome automatically installed--and not merely automatically installed, but automatically set as your default browser without your consent--alongside the updaters for popular software like Flash and the Java runtime. This is how Chrome infected my machine for the first time. Endlessly scummy, and I resolved then and there to never use Chrome.