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Look at that shit! Before it was here are your two browsers choose! Now it's...how about for the letter A? Suppose a website starts with an A, would you choose Edge to be your default browser?... then you choose chrome or Firefox, and when you click on a link Edge Pops up with some shit like...Are you really sure you wanna use Firefox to view websites that start with the letter A?

Fuck Microsoft! Give us a fucking break you assholes! You are this turd of a company that is just stuck to company's assholes and that's the only reason any fly will ever touch your software.

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[–] AWittyUsername 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Apple is almost as bad with Safari on MacOs and you can't even really change the browser on IOS. But everyone shits on Microsoft.

[–] EddieTee77 5 points 1 year ago

Thank you! I don't like either approach but I hate that only one gets this much flack

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Android is getting there too You have to jump through a lot of hoops not to use Chrome

[–] tester1121 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can change the default browser, but it doesn't matter since all of them are forced to use Apple's WebKit.

[–] AWittyUsername 1 points 1 year ago

Exactly my point. Pretty much just a different skin

[–] QuaternionsRock 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think the reason for the dichotomy is their purported motivation for doing so.

I say “purported” because I know Lemmy has a bone to pick with Apple’s privacy claims, and I would prefer to gracefully avoid it, but I will say that, regardless of the extent to which Apple collects user data, it is easy to ensure that they aren’t hyper-aggressively monetizing it.