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Is this even legal? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Infinitus@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

I just got this popup while playing New vegas. I don't even use chrome, i've switched to firefox. How can this be allowed? Also, this is Win10

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[-] Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

In Europe it isn't. But I got it too. Even worse, my default browser was changed to Bing after an update.

[-] zzz@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Even worse, my default browser was changed to Bing after an update.

Is this not literally quite almost what their first big antitrust case was all about (shipping their OS together with Internet Explorer, back then) that almost got them broken up by the state?

[-] Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

In a light version, yes.

[-] miridius@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

European here. Which law is this breaking, exactly? Pretty sure advertising is legal

[-] Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

It's no ad, it's nudging. Without being asked even. They don't show you a list of search engines to set as default, they ask you to switch to Bing. My system just switched to Bing without asking.

[-] Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

It's no ad, it's nudging. Without being asked even. They don't show you a list of search engines to set as default, they ask you to switch to Bing. My system just switched to Bing without asking.

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