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Sir Egg of Nogg πŸŽ… πŸŽ„

@econads @TheBreadmonkey

I've been using the DDG browser and search for a few years. Generally happy with it.

Our work laptops updated to Win11, Edge, CoPilot and Google search set as defaults. It's just an awful experience.

Fortunately, it's not locked down so much that I couldn't swap to DDG.

3 January at 15:36 | Wall-to-wall | Open on beige.party
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econads

@Sir_Osis_of_Liver @TheBreadmonkey do companies get paid by MS to do that? What's the motivation?

3 January at 16:06 | Open on mendeddrum.org
Sir Egg of Nogg πŸŽ… πŸŽ„

@econads @TheBreadmonkey

I'm not sure.

We've got about 30k desktop/laptop Windows installs. If there was a financial benefit, I'm sure they'd go for it.

3 January at 16:10 | Open on beige.party
Jay

@econads @Sir_Osis_of_Liver @TheBreadmonkey It could be good deals at scale for MS licenses, and/or that IT departments select the easiest/most commonly used programs/OSes as the standard because having to troubleshoot every possibility with people who would say the browser they’re using is a β€œMac” can get pretty tedious.

3 January at 17:26 | Open on mastodon.online
draeath

@WhiteCatTamer @econads @Sir_Osis_of_Liver @TheBreadmonkey it's the latter. MS doesn't give you anything for setting those defaults.

3 January at 18:03 | Open on infosec.exchange
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