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This is good news, given the circumstances. Google doesn't show a welcome screen in Chrome to select your default search engine, and this action somewhat helps with mitigating that imbalance.

Considering Chrome's market share, it's only a matter of time until Google will be required to show a search engine choice screen in the browser, they were already ordered by the EU to do it for the default Android browser and search engine.

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I don't know how forcing people to use another search engine is better is good news. It's not like Microsoft is giving a set of options here. The way microsoft is trying to force its products through its other products (like edge and bing in windows 10) is sad and really annoying.

Microsoft is doing the same as Google, they set a default search engine that can be changed, instead of offering an active choice before setting a default.

Both companies behave inappropriately, but then again, actions like these are needed to highlight how choices are made for us, and to shake us out of complatence.

Actually Microsoft are installing a chrome plugin that forces the search engine to Bing so users can’t change the default back until they remove the plugin

When you install Chrome you expect the search engine to be set to Google.

When you install O365 ProPlus you sure as hell don‘t expect it to change search engine parameters in separate programs.

how is forcing Bing on customers is good news? Microsoft, Internet Explorer creator, is a trillion dollar company, not a startup looking to disturb the market in face of tech giants.

If I offered a desktop software to browse my library of cat pictures and automatically changed all default search engines to my online cat search service, would that be good news as well?

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