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Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension (www.pcworld.com)
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  • A Chrome extension called “Microsoft to Microslop” that renames Microsoft references in browsers as a protest against the company’s aggressive AI integration.
  • The extension reflects widespread user frustration with Microsoft’s Copilot AI, which faces extremely low adoption rates and growing privacy concerns among Windows users.
  • Many users actively seek ways to remove AI features from Windows, highlighting significant backlash against Microsoft’s AI strategy despite CEO dismissals of complaints.
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[–] 28 points 9 months ago (8 children)

When I was your age, we called them Micro$oft. Too bad there were no extensions in Netscape Navigator.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    I dunno why the dollar sign version lost favor with anyone. It’s perpetually true, easy to type, and communicates far more succinctly than any screed about M$’s greed and enshittification.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child)

    It was (and is) spot on but Microsoft won the war for minds and lots of people in the Linux community started using Microsoft products like vscode and calling them good guys because they were running Linux datacenters and making kernel contributions. Microsoft employed some really good people working on some cool things. You were called out for being immature and holding outdated grudges if you used slang terms and you couldn't participate in conversations and be taken seriously.

    Meanwhile Microsoft was still being Microsoft. They bought the defacto town square - github - in an attempt to control the platform. Then they mined the content to train LLMs. Now the LLMs bombard open source projects with crap. Even as Windows is dying they are trying to drag us down as well.

    They are a big company and big companies sometimes do good things. No hate on their engineers. But Microsoft have always been the enemy and they will always be the enemy. It is their nature.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Doesn't work anymore because "money = good/powerful/special". You use Linux because you're a cheapskate, not because Microsoft is shit. Etc.

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