[deafpolygon]

> Windows 11 gave me an unsolicited toaster popup, with the default action being to change Chrome's default search engine to Bing

Not doubting you, but as a W11 home user for a while- I haven't seen this myself.

> This is an atrocious dark pattern and a huge overreach for an operating system

It's not a dark pattern. It's definitely an annoying thing - how is this different from Apple reminding you to set-up Apple Pay?

[circuit10]

Because it’s something you probably don’t want to do and they’re making it easy to do by accident

[lolc]

Calling it a dark pattern may be a stretch. But does the nag to set up Apple Pay directly change preferences to their product over a competitor's? Or is it added as an option?

[hosteur]

> how is this different from Apple reminding you to set-up Apple Pay?

Thats an absolute dark pattern too.