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Mozilla Asks Whether Choosing a Browser Could Count as Choosing
· New York time
Mozilla is criticizing Microsoft over practices it says push users toward Edge. According to PC Magazine, Mozilla representatives have met with Microsoft about their concerns and found the company unresponsive. Mozilla counsel Kush Amlani argues that Microsoft does only what the law requires to respect user choice. The dispute concerns a familiar tension in consumer technology: a platform can offer alternatives while making its own product the easiest path. Availability and practical freedom are not always identical, particularly when one company controls the environment in which the decision happens. For Windows users, browser selection is a small act with recurring consequences. It determines where links open, which settings follow them and how much time they spend persuading a computer that an earlier decision remains in force. The comic ideal of modern computing is a machine that remembers every advertising preference but approaches a browser preference with the wonder of first contact. Users would like a switch. Platforms can prefer a journey. Somewhere between those ambitions sits a person who only wanted to open a recipe, now engaged in constitutional negotiations with a settings menu before dinner can begin.
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