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Google doesn't really have any right to complain as they've had Google Chrome and the Google search bar as drive by installs in third party software installers

https://www.labnol.org/software/chrome-with-adobe-reader/201...

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Yeah, but I have a right to complain.

Microsoft pulls a consumer-hostile move, and the first thought of a lot of commenters on here (not just you) is, "what is the impact on Google?"

Who cares about the company? Stop messing with my computer behind my back.

200 years from now, someone on Mars will be reading the headline "Google Drones Lethally Injecting iPhone Owners On Sight", and there'll still be people on HN who's first reaction is to wonder whether or not that counts as anti-competitive towards Apple.

This is an enterprise system, though; it won't be running on your computer, but business computers. Still bad, but less bad – arguably on the level of Google pushing its search engine in Chrome and Firefox to begin with.

I think the defaults matter a lot in such cases. Does anybody remember if that checkbox for installing google chrome was checked in by default or not?

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