<story><title>Brave and Firefox to intercept links that force-open in Microsoft Edge</title><url>https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/anti-competitive-browser-edges.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>walrus01</author><text>Microsoft doing exactly the same thing they were, twenty plus years ago, with the IE vs Netscape browser wars. At least they&amp;#x27;re consistent about being hostile. And now, of course, their main competition is Chrome and Google.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.com&amp;#x2F;search?client=firefox-b-1-d&amp;amp;q=netscape+microsoft+lawsuit&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.com&amp;#x2F;search?client=firefox-b-1-d&amp;amp;q=netscap...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I would encourage anyone who doesn&amp;#x27;t use Windows 10 on a regular basis to take a look at what the &amp;#x27;defaults&amp;#x27; are that Microsoft steers people towards on a brand new Win10 Home installation. Including the creation of a Microsoft account, bing, edge, all the telemetry turned on, etc.  Just...  Yuck.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MiddleEndian</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not just Windows 10 Home. I have Windows 10 Pro. The other day after rebooting my laptop, I was prompted yet again with that setup page that tries to enable useless shit like Office 365 and change my default browser to Edge. Honestly not sure how this can be legal after they got busted for something relatively mundane like setting the default to IE in the past.</text></comment>
<story><title>Brave and Firefox to intercept links that force-open in Microsoft Edge</title><url>https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/anti-competitive-browser-edges.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>walrus01</author><text>Microsoft doing exactly the same thing they were, twenty plus years ago, with the IE vs Netscape browser wars. At least they&amp;#x27;re consistent about being hostile. And now, of course, their main competition is Chrome and Google.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.com&amp;#x2F;search?client=firefox-b-1-d&amp;amp;q=netscape+microsoft+lawsuit&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.com&amp;#x2F;search?client=firefox-b-1-d&amp;amp;q=netscap...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I would encourage anyone who doesn&amp;#x27;t use Windows 10 on a regular basis to take a look at what the &amp;#x27;defaults&amp;#x27; are that Microsoft steers people towards on a brand new Win10 Home installation. Including the creation of a Microsoft account, bing, edge, all the telemetry turned on, etc.  Just...  Yuck.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wpietri</author><text>Monopolies don&amp;#x27;t see themselves like a normal business, one that has to compete for customers by serving them well. Instead, their thinking is more like a cattle rancher: the users are their property, to pen and milk as they see fit.</text></comment>