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Default search engine DOESN'T change because I was using the Free and Open Source™ operating system, GNU/Linux
Or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux + Dogpile + AltaVista + AOL
So many toolbars while in reality you need only one...
spoiler
What am I looking at..
Before you paid for "free" software with your data, you used to pay by agreeing to install a search bar in your browser. Usually you just uninstalled it directly afterwards. Not this guy though.
This kind of thing is what got me into actually reading install wizards instead of clicking next, next, agree, next, yes, install, finish. I learned I could just uncheck those agree/install boxes and still install the software I actually wanted without all the extra crap. That's one trend from the 00s and early 10s I do not miss.
Wait until you hear about kernel level anticheat for competitive games
This has kind of come around full circle... Video games went from what you described to literally just not letting you start the game until you approved every EULA that popped up before the main menu.
They got us so used to just clicking OK because we knew the only alternative was not playing the game at all.
Now they have several types of EULAs at the start of a game, and usually the "data sharing' one is separated out and not needed to be approved in order to start the game (probably thanks the GDPR if I had to guess off hand). But people have gotten so conditioned to the idea of "just click OK over and over so I can start playing" that they don't realize there's two separate EULAs there, and only one is required to be accepted to play the game.
You're looking at The Great Era of Internet.
Windows95
But god I miss MSVC++
Those shitty square widgets ❤️
That brings back memories
We used to install some of those on purpose.
Surely the default search engine in internet explorer in your prefix would have changed.
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Default search engine DOESN'T change because I was using the Free and Open Source™ operating system, GNU/Linux
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Default search engine changes because of reasons. Money reasons. Money reasons fueled by the product (user).
I looove CMD windows popping up at boot 😍😍
AMD's auto updater does this. But it pops up and closes instantly so I have no idea if it's actually working or just crashing.
It freaks me out every time I see it on my rig with the damn bloated ass drivers now.
I'm supposed to be clean. But it feels like computer herpes.
In reality 2/3 or more of the world population has it, but nobody wants to admit or believe they do despite science saying differently lol.
One time pirated some video editing software and after rebooting my Steam had janky early 2000s sidebar ads.
One time when I was a teenager, I somehow downloaded exactly the wrong porn and then my login screen background and windows xp startup splash screen all got replaced with a Debian logo.
Isn't this an improvement?
Have you tried Bing lately?
Fuck, I remember when I was using Bing religiously unironicaly in the early 2010s during my Extremist Microsoft Loyalist phase.
Loyalism, sure... We all know what's the only reason to use Bing.
I'm farming Microsoft Reward points with nonsensical searches for Overwatch coins. That's the only true reason to use Bing
Good pork results.
Windows Phone's UI is a hill I will die on, it was really nice! I actively missed it for a while when switching.
The only thing a bit shitty was the Settings. It was like a mile long, not sure if it had search or not. Was a long time ago.
I love using Microsoft Edge on my GNU/Linux machine. I actually tried switching to Google as the search engine, but Microsoft Edge said it would be sad if I switched, so for the sake of Microsoft, I decided that I'd stay with Bing forever. I love giving my personal information to Copilot so that it can generate an interview application for me in my local fast food shops such as Mcdonalds, KFC, Burger King, etc. God bless Microsoft, best company ever!!! /s
When my work colleague opens his Edge browser it always shows a page with "news" and ads. Bro... I always think of that IT crowd episode where the guy says "if this were a person, I'd shoot it in the face".
That's just the default new tab page on edge
And I would take it as a bad sign when the people who are supposed to be the most tech savvy in the building can't be bothered to take 3 seconds to change that.
The bing homepage is so terrible
I had a friend that used microsoft edge and bing because they were the default and said that firefox is the worst and edge is much better
I did switch his default browser to firefox and search engine(on edge) to google(i wanted to switch to duckduckgo, but he hated it for no reason) while he was talking
Good old conduit search
ah this brings back memories
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