Comment on Is this even legal?
andallthat@lemmy.world 1 year agoI’m not even remotely a legal expert and I don’t know what type of popup that is but I think the anti-competitive piece is “could Google use the same technique to push the user to switch from Edge to Chrome or not?”.
If this was an ad from a web page OP had opened or from the game and if clicking “Yes” only directed the user to a site with instructions on how to switch default search engine on Chrome, then yes, obnoxious but probably fair. Google could strike a deal with the game developers to push Chrome or buy an ad. Someone writing a new browser will probably have considerably less money than Google but could reasonably do something similar to try and gain market share.
If that popup comes from Windows itself and especially if clicking “Yes” directly changes Chrome’s settings, then this is Microsoft using their ubiquitous (on desktops) OS to convince more users to switch to their own browser from a competitor’s. Google, or even less a new competitor. would probably not have the same type of OS-level access to switch the settings of a different browser.
sfgifz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Google already does this - use Google Search or Gmail on a non-Google browser and it will “suggest” you use Chrome