I didn't think this was a such a huge deal, it's not like Google doesn't beg you to use Chrome every time you use a Google service or a website that has their Oauth.
Edit: related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39741926
Edit: related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39741926
You can hate Google nagging you all you want, but they are doing it on their own properties. There is a cost/benefit calculation for them.
But if you inject ads into someone else's space and no one seems to care (or just blames Google) then the cost/benefit calculation changes completely and this could get quite ugly.
If in Google's product they can nag me every time I ask them to open a competitor's product, why shouldn't Microsoft's product nag me every time I ask them to open a competitor's product?
They're both shit from my perspective as a user, of course. But Microsoft is just using the Google playbook here.
As far as I know, Google don’t push Chrome on websites that aren’t theirs.
If you were watching a movie on Prime and Amazon inserted an ad before the movie that would be annoying but normal.
But what if your TV manufacturer injected an ad over the movie?
That would not be the moral equivalent of the first example, and if you just blamed Amazon then all the TV manufacturers would jump on the bandwagon.
I remember when you could launch chrome first time and it just worked right away no nagging
Ok so we'd be fine with the money collected from it being just burned then?
Because unless you're going to do that then they profit from it.
> Financial inventives and disincentives like these are used effectively all over the world
Heavy [citation needed] caveat, wild to me that so many people think the solution to problems is giving the government a slice of the pie.
You could argue computer operating systems are needed to access the digital public space and therefore the same line of reasoning applies. If you don't have a choice of operating system you shouldn't have to be subjected to excessive advertising. For people suffering from overstimulation it's also an accessibility issue.
The first one might be annoying, the latter is basically malware.
> Choose Chrome, the browser by Google
> Chrome is a secure way to browse on your phone. Try it?
> [blue button: Choose Chrome]
> [white button: No, thanks]
MS even shows a message if you want to revert your choice.
>"Wait-don't change it back! If you do, you'll turn off Microsoft Bing Search for Chrome and lose access to Bing Search and wallpapers,"