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Microsoft's Sneaky Plan to Switch Chrome Searches From Google to Bing

posted by martyb on Friday January 24 2020, @08:05PM   Printer-friendly
from the don't-mess-with-the-duck dept.

Freeman writes:

Microsoft's sneaky plan to switch Chrome searches from Google to Bing:

Microsoft announced today that, beginning in February 2020, Office365 Pro Plus installs and updates will include a Chrome extension that forcibly changes the default search engine to Microsoft's own search engine, Bing.

[...] This new policy only takes places in specific geographic areas, as determined by a user's IP address. If you aren't in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, the UK, or the United States, you should be safe—for now

[...] Predictably, the unruly denizens of Reddit's r/sysadmin—arguably, the closest thing the modern Internet has to the scary devil monastery—are unhappy.

[...] Microsoft's actual stated reasoning for the change is to automatically enable Microsoft Search within the user's browser.

[...] Aside from the potential to enrage sysadmins and users alike, we question the wisdom of conditioning users to search for internal, likely confidential data in their Web browser's general-purpose search bar.

LibreOffice + Firefox anyone?

Additional coverage at: searchengineland

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  • (Score: 2) by BsAtHome on Friday January 24 2020, @09:23PM (3 children)

    by BsAtHome (889) on Friday January 24 2020, @09:23PM (#948156)

    ex + elinks?
    ed + curl?
    echo + wget?

    Maybe talk the old way, words and sounds?

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  • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday January 24 2020, @10:01PM (2 children)

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Friday January 24 2020, @10:01PM (#948175) Journal

    To hell with the sound

    quill + parchment

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    La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 24 2020, @10:56PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 24 2020, @10:56PM (#948212)

      Oh, but the poor lusers will be confused with no sound.

      Caveman cubicles are the pointy-haired boss solution.
      Therefore, I propose: hammers and chisels on stone tablets.
      Lusers will hear the *tink* *tink* of typing(even better than the old beloved IBM 'clacker' keyboards), and HR can hear/feel the *crash* n *smash* of doc's being 'shredded' to compliance. ;-)

      rts008

      • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday January 24 2020, @11:04PM

        by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday January 24 2020, @11:04PM (#948220) Journal

        edlin + usenet

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        To transfer files: right-click on file, pick Copy. Unplug mouse, plug mouse into other computer. Right-click, paste.