Honestly a good change. Defaults should be handled by the OS. If a software wants to be your default, it should ask the OS to present the selection screen and allow the user to choose the option.
Yeah, and if that was why it was being done, that would be awesome.
It isn’t being done because it’s a better policy.
Kinda crazy that any other method was ever implemented tbh.
Apparently this is done to block browsers like opera to change the default browser without user consent, but I think this just makes it more complicated to change the default browser. Maybe they’ll add a pop up if an application tries to change it, allowing users to accept, but I don’t think that’s likely
Honestly, this might be a good thing in that case. I didn’t like when my default browser randomly changed
Ideally, this would also stop browsers (ex. Edge) from using dark patterns to try and trick you into changing to them
I’m sure Edge is exempt, and will continue to switch itself to the default browser whenever it feels like it.
The dark pattern is the fact Edge is the default OOTB browser on Windows.
like opera the default browser without user consent
That’s a thing? Wtf?
Important part from the article:
Windows users can still change their default browser through the Windows settings.
You mean the windows setting sthey keep changing and burying the easy to use features with bloated garbage and 12 menus deep?
I still to this day right click the sound icon in the taskbar and and click sounds to modify my sound settings rather then that mess of shit they call ‘sound settings’
Questionable: should’ve been replaced with an API call that shows user a pop-up like “do you want to change the default browser to $browser_name?”. Rn it’s just breaking stuff for the sake of keeping internet chromesplorer.
internet chromesplorer
I’m stealing that.
Does it block MS tho?
