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How would MSFT react if Google injected a “GOOGLE DOCS IS FREE AND BETTER!” banner on Microsoft365 pages loaded in Chrome? Disgusting tactic.
by morelinks 4y ago
How would MSFT react if Google injected a “GOOGLE DOCS IS FREE AND BETTER!” banner on Microsoft365 pages loaded in Chrome? Disgusting tactic.
- TremendousJudge 4y agothe way they inject "CHROME IS BETTER" when you visit google.com?
- thfuran 4y agoNo, not like that. That's Google's site.
- mrits 4y agoThe main issue here isn't propaganda.
- wvenable 4y agoAre you saying someone shouldn't be able to put whatever they want on their own website? Even gasp market their own products on their own website?
- Dylan16807 4y agoYes. I am saying that. Because it's an abuse of a monopolistic position.
- wvenable 4y agoHow so?
- Arainach 4y agoThat's not injected. That's rendered by Google on the sites they control.
- Spivak 4y agoTheir reaction: "Oh damn, that's good idea, let me call some PMs."
- Brendinooo 4y agoDon't call anyone a weenie though, that'll get you in antitrust trouble for sure. https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/15/technology/microsoft-investigates-acuteweenieacute-security-flaw-in-internet.html https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/15/technology/microsoft-inve...
- navigate8310 4y agoHow can they inject since MITM is impossible when the site is served via a TLS cert?
- sebzim4500 4y agoGoogle does not have clean hands here, they paid to have chrome bundled with all kinds of scummy (and not so scummy) software and made it really difficult not to accidentally install.
- kibwen 4y agoThis is something a lot of people forget. Among tech folks the narrative was always "Chrome won because it was faster", but in the real world most people got Chrome for the first time because they installed a Java or Flash update and Google paid for Chrome to automatically be installed and instantly set itself as the default browser (this is literally how I got Chrome installed for the first time, against my will, via a Flash update).