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I use the gmail app on my iphone, and almost every time I open a web link, Google nags me to install Chrome.

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.

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No, they are completely different.

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.

Unfortunately, the latter can also happen. I have used a TV in China that plays a thirty-second ad on startup almost every time, with no option to turn it off.

Odd, that has never happened to me.

As far as I know, Google don’t push Chrome on websites that aren’t theirs.

Gmail is theirs innit ?

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