Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Google
Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Google
Microsoft has paused its latest pop-ups, for now.
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I mean on one hand, terrible behavior. On the other, good.
14 4 ReplyI mean, if it's just a switch to Bing it's not really any better.
18 0 ReplyI mean I see your point, but you cold also argue that anything that can weaken a monopoly is a good thing, in the grand scheme of things
10 2 ReplyWho’s monopoly are we talking about? If that’s the goal then Firefox + DuckDuckGo would be more sensible right?
5 1 Reply100% but Microsoft and Google splitting 50 - 50 would be better than the current Google 90 - 9.9 - 0.1 it currently is.
2 1 ReplyDuckDuckGo's search results suck, is there another alternative I can use that gets its indexes from google? I don't care about censorship
1 0 ReplyI think Ecosia pulls results from Bing if that’s any better? I use them occasionally but generally prefer DDG.
1 0 ReplyI use StartPage but it's incredibly slow.
1 0 ReplyAh yeh, I tried StartPage for a while. IIRC the image results page wasn’t so great. Not many filter options and so on.
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Of course it would be more sensible, but that was not the point
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I mean, if it’s just a switch to Bing it’s not really any better.
Search wise? No. Competition wise? Yes.
Google has too much power.
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