Every trick Microsoft pulled to make you browse Edge instead of Chrome
Microsoft doesn’t respect your choices.
There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Microsoft Edge is actually good, way better than the old Internet Explorer — but you wouldn’t think so based on how desperately the company tries to shovel it onto your plate!
But Microsoft has repeatedly taken advantage of that to redirect you to Edge instead — and some of its Windows Updates have even launched the browser and pinned it to the desktop and taskbar without permission.
Microsoft has never been a fan of Windows users downloading Chrome instead of using Edge, but the company has now stepped up its campaign to keep people using its built-in browser.
Microsoft has already made it more difficult to switch default browsers in Windows 11, and now the company is going a step further by blocking apps like EdgeDeflector.
EdgeDeflector lets you bypass these restrictions, and open Start menu search results in your default browser of choice.
Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, decried the “monopoly app store” model that Google had established.
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Just install.something else.
When I buy an iPhone or andriod or Linux or even osx hardware I don't get asked what browser I want to install. It just defaults to the company providing the os
