- cross-posted to:
- curiocollection@wayfarershaven.eu
- technology@kbin.social
- cross-posted to:
- curiocollection@wayfarershaven.eu
- technology@kbin.social
This video as a text article: https://blog.nicco.love/google-drms-the-web/
This video as a text article: https://blog.nicco.love/google-drms-the-web/
At one point it went from an optional download to being required for the offering system. At that point you weren’t allowed to uninstall it.
Of course that was back before the government was completely owned by tech corporations.
Isn’t that unchanged? Edge is installed by default and I don’t think you can fully remove it…
It was way worse back then. Nowadays you can actually remove it. Back then they hooked IE into numerous core UI things like the desktop wallpaper and file manager, so any attempt at actually removing it completely fucked your system
https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/uninstall-microsoft-edge-windows-11
It’s not impossible, but they try pretty hard to prevent it.
Back then, the US government was three corporations in a trenchcoat, *since then they shed the trenchcoat…