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Microsoft now pops up a poll asking why you'd want to use another browser when you download Chrome(www.theverge.com)

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Towelieyee@lemm.ee
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Friendly reminder that winget comes preinstalled on Windows 11 now.
winget install Mozilla.Firefox
You can install Firefox without even opening Edge!

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MonkderZweite@feddit.ch
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520@kbin.social
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Not exactly “stole”; the author was fine about the code being used in this way. What they were upset about is the lack of attribution and communication.

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glibg10b@lemmy.ml
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Isn’t this what licenses are for?

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xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works
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On Windows 10 too. I always just download from the website or store but I recently experienced the pretty fun of updating my apps over CLI for some reason

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Acters@lemmy.world
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Which is something you will need to do to not accept their privacy invasive terms and conditions that you have to accept before using the bloated data harvesting browser.

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glibg10b@lemmy.ml
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Do you need an MS account?

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WereCat@lemmy.world
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winget install Vivaldi

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sir_reginald@lemmy.world
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great solution. instead of Chrome or MS-Chrome, you install V-Chrome. Such a big difference! It really is a completely new theme for Chrome, isn’t it? Oh and they have a built-in adblocker which is far less capable than uBlock Origin but it is built-in! isn’t that great?

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WereCat@lemmy.world
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It’s not just skin. If it was just like any other Chromium based browser I wouldn’t bother but there isn’t any browser that has great features like Vivaldi which makes working with multiple tabs a breeze. And they don’t collect any telemetry either. Not even crash logs.

Plus, you can say pretty much that every browser with built-in adblock is worse than uBlock Origin… That’s not the point…

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morrowind@lemmy.ml
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Functionally speaking, Vivaldi is more different than chrome than Firefox is.

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