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Microsoft Blocks Browser Choice for 1.4 Billion Windows 10/11 Users, Study Finds (research.mozilla.org)
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1264137/microsoft-blocks-browser-choice-for-1-4-billion-windows-10-11-users-page-84-study-finds

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Full Report(PDF).

Note: The number in the headline is the total number of Windows 10 and Windows 11 users mentioned in page 84 notes in the report.

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[–] 33 points 3 months ago (8 children)

These harmful patterns exist all throughout the operating system. They're so incredibly frustrating and obviously anti-user, and it is these intentional design decisions that have pushed me away from windows on all of my devices

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  • [+] -18 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    I find linux is the absolute worst for alway tracking me and shoving ads down my throat.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    I think you misspelled Windows

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  • [+] -8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Windows is great it just works and copilot helps make my life easy.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    Ahem*

    "I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

    Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

    There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!"

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