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The app automatically installs Bing Visual Search and includes code to decrypt cookies saved in other browsers, Rivera said, and it also brings a “free” geolocation web API to the system.

The developer discovered “many” nasty tricks Microsoft integrated in Bing Wallpapers, which include trying to change the browser’s settings and set Edge as the default system browser. If the default browser isn’t Edge, the app will open the default browser after some time asking to enable the previously installed Microsoft Bing Search for Chrome extension.

  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    These big companies don’t win because they’re the best, they win because they buy the marketshare bribe companies to only support their platforms.

    You’re just describing free market capitalism.

    The companies are free to do what they want without government telling them they can’t do XYZ.

    In a free market, monopolies only stay monopolies if they continue to be better than the alternatives.

    I disagree, because like you say, they can just use their position to harm competitors.

    In a crony-capitalist market, monopolies continue if they can make enough barriers to prevent competition.

    A crony-capitalist market is just the natural end result of free market capitalism.

    Only by regulating the market and not having companies be free to do whatever they want can you have healthy competition and companies that benefit people.