[echelon]

Windows and Mac scare the user when switching to a non-first party browser. That, at minimum, should be highly illegal. It's wildly anti-competitive when the platform already has home field advantage.

System dialogues and prompts continue opening in the platform browser, which further continues to nag the user to switch back. Again, totally unfair. These nags and scares should not be allowed.

Competition is what makes our economy, our industry, and the pace of innovation great. Apple, Microsoft, and Google should have to work harder to maintain their insurmountable leads, not fall back on the almost sovereign militaristic advantages they hold. They have gluttonous cash flows that are impossible to attack, and they use that money to force themselves into new markets where innovators are working night and day with every fiber of their being. I don't mind these companies being the biggest in the world. What I hate is that they can so easily put their thumb on anyone trying to do better, and that they can easily extinguish the hard work of others.

[jessaustin]

I also really love how they set up the lock screen in windoze to open a new instance of Edge whenever someone clicks it in the middle. Time and again someone asks me why their computer is running slowly and I alt-tab to reveal dozens of copies of Edge displaying idiosyncratic Bing queries about the various subjects of lock screen photos. Yes thanks, these inexperienced users really need that sort of help to open many instances of an also-ran browser that makes their jobs more difficult. These users are incapable of clicking anywhere but the middle of the lock screen, even when they're trying to do so.

[scarface74]

> That, at minimum, should be highly illegal. It's wildly anti-competitive when the platform already has home field advantage.

So should it also be illegal for third party browsers to keep nagging the user that they should be the default? That’s what Netscape did for years and what Chrome does

[jeffbee]

In what way does it nag?

Apple will nag you to switch to Safari, even if you have literally never used Safari. It just pops up from time to time with a notification that cannot be ignored.

[scarface74]

When you launch Chrome you never saw the “make Chrome your default browser” dialog?

[jeffbee]

It is my default browser, so I guess not. That feels like less of a nag than the platform urging you to switch browsers without any indication that you'd like to do so.