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Comment by malikNF | Hacker News Reader

Not sure which party has no shame, is it the users who continue to get treated like aholes by ms and continue to expect them to change or ms who continue to treat their users as aholes every chance they get.

Just leave their eco systems, reject their products until they treat their customers better.

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Unfortunately it's hard to change OSs, and honestly it's Google which currently has the browser monopoly.

IMHO rejecting newer versions of their products with unwanted changes is an intermediate step and more doable, however.

Why is it so hard to change OS? Which application is holding you back? (Sure there are some critical applications that only work in Windows and that’s fair, just curious to know).

As for the browser - use a different browser, Chrome has the majority of the market but there is choice. There was choice even in the dark days of the First Browser Wars.

As for the browser alternatives I can use on my work machine are

- Chrome (I’m already being tracked by Microsoft through my office365/Active Directory everywhere, might as well not give it all to google too). - Safari I might consider trying this again starting in the next MacOS version once PWA support lands. Right now I avoid having to install multiple Electron apps with the PWA support. - Firefox I’ve been off and on with. If uBlock origin support is finally gutted from chromium I’ll switch to this again, but I find the Firefox dev tools inferior and I quite dislike their interface in recent iterations.

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