- Users of Google Chrome on Windows 10 and 11 are reporting that they have suddenly found themselves using Microsoft Edge, with their Chrome browsing sessions appearing in Edge.
- This may be due to a bug or an accidentally clicked-through dialog box related to a feature in Edge that imports browsing data from Chrome.
- The setting, called “Import browsing data from Chrome,” continually imports data from Chrome every time Edge is launched, unlike the one-time import offered for Firefox.
- There have been concerns about Microsoft’s tactics for pushing its own browser, including notifications, pop-ups, and full-screen messages promoting Edge and Bing.
- Microsoft has become more aggressive in pushing various subscriptions and features in recent years, making a “clean” Windows install feel less so.
- It remains unclear whether the Edge data-import issue is intentional or a bug, highlighting concerns about Microsoft’s methods for promoting its own software.
On-topic: I agree with your claim that EU regulators can and will make Microsoft hurt if they want to, and that both fines are examples of that.
Off-topic: frankly the other user unleashing at you was deserved. Your “You don’t seem to be familiar […]” boils down to “I assume that you’re an ignorant, so let me enlighten you little thing”. Stick to the argument dammit, your assumptions on the others are irrelevant garbage.
Also, you’d do a great favour for everyone if you didn’t use “ad-hominem” [SIC] as a fancy reword for “waaah, he insulted me!”. The argument is there, alongside the insult.
In the meantime: @Bizarroland@kbin.social, stop bring guns to a sword fight. While the above was patronising (as I am being towards both of you here - except that I’m being explicit on it), your “waaah shut up! shut up!!!” (ipsis ungulis: “stfu”) sounds like a redditor whining.
You bunch of kids, go back to the kindergarten. Both of you are being dead weight hier.
My assumption was that they were unaware rather than wilfully spreading misinformation which is the generous position to take.
People who get upset over being factually corrected are of low value to online communities.
Their response also contained no facts or evidence only further claims which I won’t waste further time addressing.
Since you love ad-hominem with a dash of unsupported claims:
It looks like you’re suggesting we assume every commenter is speaking factually. What an absolute fucking muppet you are. It’s free speech absolutist moral panic driven morons like you eroding society as a whole.
I.e. you acknowledge that you were making shit up about the other poster.
Seriously. We [people] don’t know shite about each other on the internet. Let us not pretend that we do.
That is not an ad hominem either. I didn’t even argue against your on-topic claim, I outright agreed with it. I’m complaining about your tone and highlighting that you partially deserved the other user’s aggressive reaction.
But since it seems that you’re some ignorant, unable to grasp the concept of ad hominem, let ⟨blink⟩me⟨/blink⟩ enlighten you, o poor little thing:*
Argumentum ad hominem is when you claim that something is false because someone said it, and the person has cooties or whatever. For example:
or, in fancier words, when the validity of the claim is questioned not because of the claim itself, but because of who uttered it.
*I’m doing this on purpose to highlight how obnoxious you sound. Now cover it with a Reddit style façade of politeness, and then you get your tone.
“As an assumer, I assoooome” territory? Again?
I did not say anything remotely interpretable as that. (It’s kind of funny, as you’re assuming that I’m assuming.)