On Chrome at least this is possible, even if it’s additional steps (I have not used the extension though there.)
FYI, there is a workaround [1]. It's trash that Apple makes us do this. But you can.
Granted, it nudged me to switch to Orion as my main desktop browser.
[1] https://help.kagi.com/kagi/getting-started/setting-default.h...
I'll give it another try later this year.
Very good. My only gripes are with the 1Password extension.
Why does software suck these days.
When I was a kid, I dreamt of being a solo programmer that had a few successful desktop programs. Think mIRC, WinAmp, WinRar. Despite the audience for that being >100x larger than it was in the 90s, I'd bet the number of solo shops doing that successfully isn't a whole lot larger than it was then.
There aren't many shenanigans that MS didn't pioneer in the 90s.
Not in the EU market.
They recently decoupled that part (search, but I don't know if they did it for edge too) and made bing in the start menu a store app that can be uninstalled if you don't want it to be available on your system anymore.
And are providing APIs for others to use:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/apps/develop/searc...
The only reason why you can't use google there is because.. Google doesn't care. Just like how they never released apps for the Windows Phone store, they have no intention of touching the one on Windows.
Microsoft has been hit so many times by the EU that they really care to respect our regulations now. Not just the "letter of the law" but the "spirit of the law" too.
The same should (or has already happened, I don't know.. because I actually use Edge and didn't care to look deeper into it) happen for Edge:
https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/5/23859537/microsoft-windows...
Of note, among the things that have changed recently in Windows 11, you can disable the news page from msn on Widgets, and Teams is no longer a part of Windows.
About time too, nothing more undemocratic than unregulated monopolies.
What would we say if there were only 2 car makers, 2 grocery chains, 2 companies building houses?
We'd argue endlessly because of pedantry over 'monopoly', whilst the oligopolists sell us down the river.
There are two major building materials suppliers (Carters and Fletchers). There's one manufacturer of drywall (Gib) that is easier to get council plan approval for than any other cheaper manufacturers of drywall because they provide some material strength documents that saves the councils some engineering review time and effort.
We technically have 4 major banks, but 3 of them are just offshoots of big Australian banks and siphon the insane profits offshore.
The government keeps making investigation commissions into breaking these up, but doesn't do anything. The companies just point fingers back and forth at each other blaming "the competition" for price gouging. Meanwhile the recommendation from the politicians is we cut back on avocado toast, lattes, and our Netflix subscription.
Banks are not much better. There are a couple of small players additionally to the 3 big ones, but competition is limited to very few products. If you are interested in something else, choices are very poor.
Not an option for the wide public.
There is also a GNU/Linux option here. Sent from my Librem 5.
> I use Linux, but that's not for the broad masses currently
Unless "broad massses" require some unique MS Office or Photoshop functionality, they can easily switch to Linux. My relatives did and are happy.
How well is that holding up nowadays, as a phone?
I'm really happy to be able to run desktop apps (also on a big screen!) and have full control over my phone.
Apple says they're not doing CSAM scanning anymore, but there's no way to verify they're being truthful. And given everything known about corporate America, it would be foolish to believe them.
[1] https://www.apple.com/child-safety/pdf/Expanded_Protections_...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25074959
https://sneak.berlin/20231005/apple-operating-system-surveil...
They’re not the forever-open platform you’re purporting them to be.
Look at the increasing push for device attestation via SafetyNet or whatever it is called now.
That’s why even Adam Smith himself said that it only works in well-defined markets! It’s the job of governments to define these, and phones are so essential to our lives that they should be thought of as roads, instead of as an average private company.
Imagine saying that about everything else in your life. Don't want to buy a Ford car? You can buy a Toyota. There are no other car brands in the entire world. IHG, Hyatt, Choice Hotels, Best Western, Wyndham, Radisson, they don't exit.
Don't want to stay at the Hilton? You're in luck, you can go to the Mariott, that's it.
Don't want to buy a t-shirt at Target? Well, Walmart sells t-shirts, and nobody else sells any t-shirts.
This would be astoundingly ridiculous anywhere else but technoloy. Even credit card processing networks have four options (Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express).
As an example of how this works in other industries, US antitrust regulators automatically decline any merger/acquisition US airlines that would put their marketshare above 20%. And that's after deregulation!
IMO any market that has less than ~3-5 viable purchase options for customers needs to have extensive government intervention to keep the market fair and innovative.