This behaviour is why I roll my eyes when the edge fanbois are all like "iTs AlL cHrOmE aNyWaY".

Fuck any company that uses their power to try trick people into using their software, yes including google.

And again, install Linux and be done with this shit. Fuck Windows, fuck everything about Microsoft, don't use their crap

installed a Windows update, (...) and I have Google Chrome set as my default browser

It's subtle but if you look closely and read between the lines you can see what the real issue is.

I’m slowly just migrating away from windows as much as I can because Microsoft is being so pushy with this nonsense. Like, they keep trying to get me to log in to a Microsoft account that doesn’t exist, they keep changing settings and asking for more permissions, they keep reinstalling stuff I’ve ripped out purposefully, and from the way they’re talking it seems like it’s just going to get worse. Stuff like putting cloud run python functions in to Excel just sounds like they’re testing tech to push more and more functions off the device and in to their centralized processing centers.

I’d consider apple but I don’t have “spend 3x as much money on the same hardware” money TBH, and really I don’t have any guarantees they won’t do the same thing Microsoft is doing.

I’ve got an older laptop that I’m slowly rebuilding my work flow in mint Linux and once I’ve got that working I’ll set it up on my main computer and be done with windows for the foreseeable future.

No one who enjoys the Internet should be using Chrome for anything.

Firefox is your friend.

LOL This is what happens when you run closed source garbage. Nothing is in your control.

Edge also copies all the extensions you have in Chrome.

I use Edge as "that browser with full tracking and no privacy that government sites require", so it still was a dick move... had to disable them all 😒

Everyone in this thread is complaining about Chrome. They should be complaining about MS.

That's hilarious. Why would you use chrome instead of edge though? At least with edge you cut out google, with chrome you give data to both.

Two ways to avoid this problem: switch to linux, switch to firefox, preferably both

It's so easy to switch to Edge, you don't even have to try! Literally!

Microsoft Edge is actually good, so I sure hope the team building it isn’t about to resort to more tricks to get Chrome users to use it.

Given Microsoft's track record....

Look at me! I am the browser now

I thought I had heard the worst of it. But it's their platform. They keep inventing new ways to screw their customers.

Actually, I had this exact issue a year ago, had a rage fit, and bought a Mac. I hate Apple, but this was going way too far

Pretty crazy to think they got broken up in the late 90s/early 2000s for simply including IE in a fresh Windows install (im probably over simplifying but still). Yet these days they're pulling this kind of shit

That's horrible. Also normal.

And sad because none of those two things should even exist, much less dominate the market.