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Is this even legal? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Infinitus@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I just got this popup while playing New vegas. I don't even use chrome, i've switched to firefox. How can this be allowed? Also, this is Win10

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[–] RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ca 154 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If governments actually gave a fuck about antitrust anymore, it would be. 20-ish years ago, they dragged Microsoft to court over simply bundling IE with Windows. It didn't even constantly nag you to set as default; just the fact that it was bundled at all was enough to make it into the sights of regulators.

[–] Tandybaum@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Dumb question but how would you get your browser of choice if they didn’t include one from the jump?

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

At the time, you'd get a disk from a store or order it from a magazine or whatever. I don't really know what the solution would be now since those aren't things though. I guess get one from a friend or another device?

[–] rambaroo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I believe it contained multiple browser installers and let you pick one.

[–] SimplePhysics@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If they didn’t bundle safari on a mac or firefox on linux, there are terminal commands to install firefox and chrome on both.

There is a command for windows via their built in package manager apparently, but I can’t confirm that.

[–] Klajan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yea, winget is the build in windows package manager.

I started using that pretty frequently and a lot of software is on it, though it does lack some features like version pinning.

There is a website to explore the available packages at winget.run, which makes it a bit easier to use.

[–] igni5s@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Cd or usb