I thought we were past the age of toolbar spam
It never went away, just the degree of desperation has changed
Eff M
The screenshot doesn’t show it, but there’s also an X in the top right of the screen.
This comment doesn’t show it but this is a good time to uninstall your hard drive, throw in a new one, and install Linux
This comment doesn’t say it but it’s a few months late.
Microsoft is offering wallpapers, ask Google what it’s offering before you make the decision.
Violations of privacy. Microsoft has that too though, so unless Google has wallpapers they need to step up their game.
So stay with Microsoft. Since they’re already spying on you through their OS-integrated malware, having them spy on you through their search engine isn’t a big deal at this point.
So when running a Linux desktop, what does one do to avoid these search engines? I use DuckDuckGo for the moment, but if love some alternatve that isnopen source too, self hosted if need be, and federated would be awesome
Federated?
You’re just throwing together FOSS buzzwords at this point.
Why?
Well, yacy exists
Realistically SearXNG or Whoogle.
Ideally you would want to use yacy, but in my experience the results are just too bad to be able to use it
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Searxng throws together results from different engines as far as I know.
Not sure how a federated search engine would work though.
Edit: hash0772 (is there a correct way address someone’s username on Lemmy?) already mentioned this but it’s generally best to use an existing instance, there’s also some on tor. (they obviously still only search the clearnet)
You know that scene in Who Framed Roger Rabbit where Donald and Daffy Duck are both playing the same song on individual pianos while trying to kill each other? Yeah.
You Chrome folks need extensions to use non-Google search engines?
Firefox uses just bog standard OpenSearch definitions. No shenanigans. Ships with both Google and Bing if you’re into that sort of things. And you can add arbitrary search URLs, no probalo.
i need to know more about opensearch
You don’t have to use an extension to do it, but some find it easier to do than finding it in settings.
The same is true for Firefox.
What a world we live in.
You don’t, but you can.
No, it looks like something Windows automatically added to their chrome to enforce Bing, unless something changed recently and I didn’t know about it
Yeah, and the one on Amazon is broken for years and no one cares.
There is: https://mycroftproject.com/
There you can just about anything to Firefox’s search providers.
How does this chrome add-on get installed in the first place?
wait is this real
I was asking myself the same thing. This is a pathetic state of affairs… The only thing missing is that the google banner would now also acknowledge the Bing box and tell you specifically “don’t listen to the other popup!”.
Where’s that Spiderman meme.
“Programmer” humor 🤔
Midlevel management does this, not developers
Yeah you can tell there are KPIs tied to bonuses causing this. Corporate culture is trash
Medieval management, aka serfdom
I initially read that as medieval management and now I cannot read it any other way.
Not my wallpapers!
They have me by the wallpapers!
Well, you have to admit they are by far the best feature of bing
The xiaomi wallpaper carousel is the worst piece of soft on my phone, I don’t care and no you can’t have all those accesses.
Had to install some freeware to just set the backgrounds wtf is this, the way they are getting people now??
Literally used adb to forcefully remove it… It reinstalled itself. Bruh
What’s adb?
Android development app that runs on a PC and can connect to an Android device via USB to control it.
Lets you do way more than what you can do directly in the Android device itself.
Apple desktop bus. Not sure how it is used in this manner, however
Why would Apple make a tool for Xiaomi phones?
Username checks out but this standard was deprecated in the late 90s lol
I’m starting to suspect I just didn’t get the joke
NOOOOOO
🙀
When I quit at McDonalds to start a career in welding, the owner of the store happened to be visiting. He took me aside and told me “You know, those guys at… (Sorry, what was that place called again? Right…) You know, I’ve heard the people there aren’t as nice as we are here. Are you sure you want to leave?”
I’ve never wanted to punch an old man so much in my life. In that moment, he was the personification of class warfare to me, trying to “trick” me into throwing away my future just so he could have more cheap labour. And the fact it was so blatantly obvious added insult to, well… insult.
Anyway, it’s not the same, but the “wallpapers” thing definitely gives me the same vibes, lol.
It really is the same thing though. It’s out of touch, insulting, and downright disrespectful to use something that is not unique to the provider, or valuable at all, as a reason to stay with said provider.
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Jeez, at least offer assistant to the manager on the spot!
This isn’t funny, this is just the sad state of software these days.
At least FOSS doesn’t try this. At least not as part of the program (I think there’s some childish behaviour from devs but generally it doesn’t make it to the code).
It’s funny how chrome users are struggling with all those bullshit. Firefox for the win
And this is the real game of monopoly, of course.
Apart from the search engines being both shitty, here there’s nothing wrong
If you installed an extension to use bing search, what you want is to use bing search, not Google. So of course the extension has to say “don’t switch”
There’s also a good point on chrome’s side. There’s extensions that will switch your default search engine without your consent, so having the possibility to undo directly is nice.
Another way to see it, would be to switch chrome for firefox, Google search for duck duck go, and bing to qwant. Same story, but no shitty companies clouding judgements
But microsoft install that for you without consent, according to other comment on lemmy.
Sadly there’s no such thing as “user consent” in big tech
Oh yeah, there it’s a completely different story. But that’s mostly on OP to not provide context.
But if it was installed that way, it’s just MS being shitty again
Gross
But considering the current state of Google search, not as gross as it was.
