Not my wallpapers!
When I quit at McDonalds to start a career in welding, the owner of the store happened to be visiting. He took me aside and told me “You know, those guys at… (Sorry, what was that place called again? Right…) You know, I’ve heard the people there aren’t as nice as we are here. Are you sure you want to leave?”
I’ve never wanted to punch an old man so much in my life. In that moment, he was the personification of class warfare to me, trying to “trick” me into throwing away my future just so he could have more cheap labour. And the fact it was so blatantly obvious added insult to, well… insult.
Anyway, it’s not the same, but the “wallpapers” thing definitely gives me the same vibes, lol.
It really is the same thing though. It’s out of touch, insulting, and downright disrespectful to use something that is not unique to the provider, or valuable at all, as a reason to stay with said provider.
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Jeez, at least offer assistant to the manager on the spot!
Well, you have to admit they are by far the best feature of bing
NOOOOOO
🙀
The xiaomi wallpaper carousel is the worst piece of soft on my phone, I don’t care and no you can’t have all those accesses.
Had to install some freeware to just set the backgrounds wtf is this, the way they are getting people now??
Literally used adb to forcefully remove it… It reinstalled itself. Bruh
What’s adb?
Android development app that runs on a PC and can connect to an Android device via USB to control it.
Lets you do way more than what you can do directly in the Android device itself.
Apple desktop bus. Not sure how it is used in this manner, however
Username checks out but this standard was deprecated in the late 90s lol
I’m starting to suspect I just didn’t get the joke
Why would Apple make a tool for Xiaomi phones?
This isn’t funny, this is just the sad state of software these days.
It’s funny how chrome users are struggling with all those bullshit. Firefox for the win
At least FOSS doesn’t try this. At least not as part of the program (I think there’s some childish behaviour from devs but generally it doesn’t make it to the code).
I thought we were past the age of toolbar spam
It never went away, just the degree of desperation has changed
Gross
But considering the current state of Google search, not as gross as it was.You Chrome folks need extensions to use non-Google search engines?
Firefox uses just bog standard OpenSearch definitions. No shenanigans. Ships with both Google and Bing if you’re into that sort of things. And you can add arbitrary search URLs, no probalo.
No, it looks like something Windows automatically added to their chrome to enforce Bing, unless something changed recently and I didn’t know about it
You don’t, but you can.
You don’t have to use an extension to do it, but some find it easier to do than finding it in settings.
The same is true for Firefox.
What a world we live in.
i need to know more about opensearch
Yeah, and the one on Amazon is broken for years and no one cares.
There is: https://mycroftproject.com/
There you can just about anything to Firefox’s search providers.
Microsoft is offering wallpapers, ask Google what it’s offering before you make the decision.
Violations of privacy. Microsoft has that too though, so unless Google has wallpapers they need to step up their game.
So stay with Microsoft. Since they’re already spying on you through their OS-integrated malware, having them spy on you through their search engine isn’t a big deal at this point.
wait is this real
I was asking myself the same thing. This is a pathetic state of affairs… The only thing missing is that the google banner would now also acknowledge the Bing box and tell you specifically “don’t listen to the other popup!”.
Where’s that Spiderman meme.
Apart from the search engines being both shitty, here there’s nothing wrong
If you installed an extension to use bing search, what you want is to use bing search, not Google. So of course the extension has to say “don’t switch”
There’s also a good point on chrome’s side. There’s extensions that will switch your default search engine without your consent, so having the possibility to undo directly is nice.
Another way to see it, would be to switch chrome for firefox, Google search for duck duck go, and bing to qwant. Same story, but no shitty companies clouding judgements
But microsoft install that for you without consent, according to other comment on lemmy.
Oh yeah, there it’s a completely different story. But that’s mostly on OP to not provide context.
But if it was installed that way, it’s just MS being shitty again
Sadly there’s no such thing as “user consent” in big tech
You know that scene in Who Framed Roger Rabbit where Donald and Daffy Duck are both playing the same song on individual pianos while trying to kill each other? Yeah.
And this is the real game of monopoly, of course.
The screenshot doesn’t show it, but there’s also an X in the top right of the screen.
This comment doesn’t show it but this is a good time to uninstall your hard drive, throw in a new one, and install Linux
This comment doesn’t say it but it’s a few months late.
It’s honestly incredible that Bing even still exists, much less is still being actively being pushed by M$
Bing is the default engine in Edge which is the default browser on Windows. There’s a huuuge demographic who doesn’t care enough to change either of those.
Also, Bing profits from other search engines using their results as a base. DuckDuckGo, for example, uses Bing as their primary source for search results. And in my experience is better at it than google, these days.
I’ve personally moved to Bing from Google. Partly because it’s annoyingly the only way to do web searches from the start menu, But also because it’s much more flexible with AI compared to Google’s new AI Overviews (The engines vice president actually tweeted about being able to disable Copilot in response to Google’s new AI).
I personally like how Bing presents information better, but it still has quite a few problems. Especially around relevancy, and it’s image search isn’t the best if you’re looking for anything that isn’t a photograph.
FYI you can (sorta) redirect searches from the start menu: https://www.windowscentral.com/how-let-google-handle-cortana-web-search-results-windows-10
Mine all go to DDG in FF
Both currently are terrible.
Eff M
How does this chrome add-on get installed in the first place?
