The headline says "stuffing". This archive 15 minutes before this post was made also says "stuffing". Stop blaming The Verge for everything, they've moved on from that PC fiasco long ago.
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deranger@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I looked at the links in the source and they’re Windows popups, not Chrome injections. Shitty reporting from the verge.
Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 11 months ago
deranger@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Still incorrect, I believe. The pop ups are from Windows. They’re not doing anything to Chrome. Maybe that’s a pedantic technicality but it matters to me, and probably in a legal sense as well.
Microsoft has plenty of shitty practices to report on, including the browser pop ups in windows. There’s no need to lie for clicks. I dunno what the commotion about The Verge is you’re referring to, I’m just commenting on the headline.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They control your OS. Instead of just running the program you told it to, it’s checking what program you are running and then displaying a pop-up intended to make them more profit. Functionally, there isn’t really a difference when the OS can already do whatever injected code might want to do.
It’s like if your bank is inserting flyers for their investment services into any safe deposit boxes that include stock certificates and arguing about whether they are picking your lock to get in or just opening a door in the back that gives them access to each box.
Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 11 months ago
Hmm, to me stuffing doesn't sound like they're changing Chrome, but I get your point.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It absolutely does?
Stuffing means cramming something into another thing.
Microsoft is stuffing pop-up ads into Google Chrome on Windows again
That’s a blatant lie. Nothing is getting injected/stuffed/whatever synonym-ed into Chrome. It’s a Windows popup.
It’s still a textbook abuse of dominant market position, and therefore illegal, so there’s no need for the article to lie and hand MS and their fans the opportunity to dismiss this reporting as being fake news, which it essentially is.
warm@kbin.earth 11 months ago
You expected better from the verge?
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 11 months ago
almost just as scummy though
deranger@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I don’t disagree but shit, can we get some accurate reporting? No need to lie about how shitty Microsoft can be.
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 11 months ago
Yeah agreed, that title is literally a lie.