Just shows how deeply edge analyzes the users traffic.
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Kissaki@feddit.de 1 year ago
What a ragebait article. Shit journalism.
When users open and wait for the Chrome download to begin, Microsoft opens a sidebar and presents users with a poll that interrogates users on why they think they need another browser. The wording sounds pretty civil, but it could be construed as a very aggressive and presumptive move on Microsoft’s part.
An optional survey in a sidebar that doesn’t block anything is not an interogation or demand. It’s a question, a request for information.
Their aggressive wording is disingenuous sensationalism.
ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 1 year ago
TacoNissan@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Deeply??? It’s as simple as “If url = chrome download, show survey” it’s not decrypting or digging or searching. It’s literally right there. It’s the thing showing you the website. Of course it’s going to know what site that is.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Why the fuck is it detecting the download at all?
It has zero business doing anything like that. It’s monitoring a “competitor” via your fucking computer.
That’s the fucking problem, not the fucking size of the sidebar. It’s the fact that it exists at all
Kissaki@feddit.de 1 year ago
Dunno what you’re addressing. Neither me nor the article talked about the size of the sidebar.
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The last time I downloaded chrome, I got two of three separate little “no, wait, pls, I’m a desperate, thirsty data slut and I need your data from as many places as possible, don’t give it to Google instead!” alerts.
Kissaki@feddit.de 1 year ago
That’s not what the article is about though. Nothing like that is mentioned in the article.
JTskulk@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Can I please have access to your computer so I can open sidebars on websites that I deem appropriate? If not, why?
Kissaki@feddit.de 1 year ago
Besides the point.
The article doesn’t talk about that.