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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (4 children)

But why? Is administrators forcing their company's laptop to use certain browser actually a significant problem before?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

They aren't talking about system administrators. They are talking about 3rd party software presenting a privilege escalation prompt (administrator access) and changing your default browser without you knowing about it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Its more a issue in China where every browser (read malware) would make itself the default and it's a pain to change it back.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Then just ask the user instead of assuming

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Still doable for corporate-managed devices through GPOs, MS Intune, MECM, etc