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Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Google (www.theverge.com)
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[–] RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean on one hand, terrible behavior. On the other, good.

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean, if it's just a switch to Bing it's not really any better.

[–] ominouslemon@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean I see your point, but you cold also argue that anything that can weaken a monopoly is a good thing, in the grand scheme of things

[–] idotherock@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Who’s monopoly are we talking about? If that’s the goal then Firefox + DuckDuckGo would be more sensible right?

[–] Darorad@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

100% but Microsoft and Google splitting 50 - 50 would be better than the current Google 90 - 9.9 - 0.1 it currently is.

[–] Yoru@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

DuckDuckGo's search results suck, is there another alternative I can use that gets its indexes from google? I don't care about censorship

[–] idotherock@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think Ecosia pulls results from Bing if that’s any better? I use them occasionally but generally prefer DDG.

[–] Yoru@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use StartPage but it's incredibly slow.

[–] idotherock@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Ah yeh, I tried StartPage for a while. IIRC the image results page wasn’t so great. Not many filter options and so on.

[–] ominouslemon@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Of course it would be more sensible, but that was not the point

[–] RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I mean, if it’s just a switch to Bing it’s not really any better.

Search wise? No. Competition wise? Yes.

Google has too much power.