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Its so weird that one company isnt mentioned, but will straight up not allow you to run any programs they want.

These have dark patterns, but freedom still. (Not M$ anymore, they restore defaults with each update)

Which company? You can run an unsigned .app on Mac with a ctrl+click, and there's also a system flag to change the block to a click-through popup. Apple is generally good at providing hidden flags to permanently turn off nanny mode, with a few exceptions (the context menu translation feature will happily tell you that a language isn't supported instead of letting you use Google Translate).

I think maybe they are referring to iOS, where you can't install any software not on the app store, and all non-safari browsers are required to use webviews instead of their own engine.

I believe he was referencing iOS were it is not possible to use a third party browser engine. Just safari in different dresses.

You're all over this thread being deliberately obtuse. Of course iOS is bad, that's not the point.

We're discussing desktop operating systems, Windows is the only one that deliberately messes with the default browser.

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