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by JacobSeated 1026 days ago
This is the expected, most intuitive, and only sensible behavior, and yet Microsoft somehow, for some reason, decides it is okay not to use the default browser?

Wait a minute. Are they trying to cause me to have a complete meltdown? This is so irritating. The task bar can also no longer be placed vertically on the left or right. Imo. Microsoft should be forced to open source important parts of Windows so that these processes can be more democratized by users of the system.
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simooooo 1026 days ago
The other day, I got an explicit “please use Edge” popup on my desktop. They don’t currently care about the EU
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pbmonster 1026 days ago
And it's not even happy if you're using Edge already (as I have to for work). When you're browsing in Edge, it will sometimes - mid-typing - just pop up a tab with an add for Bing and it's new AI features.

And it's a real tab, not a pop-up, so I haven't figured out how to tell uBlock to suppress it yet.

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userbinator 1026 days ago
The source of older versions of Windows was "forced open", a long time ago, unfortunately not legally.
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