{"id":48446,"date":"2023-10-25T00:12:19","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T00:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/25\/microsoft-now-thirstily-injects-a-poll-when-you-download-google-chrome\/"},"modified":"2023-10-25T00:12:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T00:12:19","slug":"microsoft-now-thirstily-injects-a-poll-when-you-download-google-chrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/25\/microsoft-now-thirstily-injects-a-poll-when-you-download-google-chrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft now thirstily injects a poll when you download Google Chrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<figure>\n      <figcaption><em>Microsoft Edge now pops up a poll after you press the \u201cDownload Chrome\u201d button.<\/em> | Screenshot by Sean Hollister \/ The Verge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p id=\"rsDoPi\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/O6rHeD5x2tI?si=IxGULBEJ0VqCGcFo&amp;t=35\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How many licks<\/a> does it take to get to the center of a Google Chrome download in Microsoft\u2019s Edge web browser? How many times will the company try to steer me away?<\/p>\n<p id=\"tW3Qpf\">Let\u2019s check! <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"E3cUr1\">One:<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"e-image\">\n<p>      <cite>Screenshot by Sean Hollister \/ The Verge<\/cite><figcaption><em>\u201cThere\u2019s no need to download a new web browser,\u201d reads the top of a search for \u201cChrome download\u201d in Microsoft Edge.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"S9lsHE\">Two:<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"e-image\">\n<p>      <cite>Screenshot by Sean Hollister \/ The Verge<\/cite><figcaption><em>\u201cMicrosoft edge runs on the same technology as Chrome, with the added trust of Microsoft,\u201d reads a pop-up that appears after you land on Google\u2019s site.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"lJvDfL\">Three:<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"e-image\">\n<p>      <cite>Screenshot by Sean Hollister \/ The Verge<\/cite><figcaption><em>\u201cWe love having you! Can you please take a minute to tell us why you are trying&#8230;<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23930960\/microsoft-edge-google-chrome-poll-why-try-another-browser\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue reading&hellip;<\/a>\n  <\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23930960\/microsoft-edge-google-chrome-poll-why-try-another-browser\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Edge now pops up a poll after you press the \u201cDownload Chrome\u201d button. | Screenshot by Sean Hollister \/ The Verge How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Google Chrome download in Microsoft\u2019s Edge web browser? How many times will the company try to steer me away? Let\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-48446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}