News Update: Google asks Edge Chromium users to Switch to Chrome browser on its Websites

[steven36]

Most expected this was coming, not this soon. Google got away and backed its decision to say new Edge Chromium as an unsupported browser on its sites such as Duo for web, Meet and YouTube when it was in development, once the Edge stable version has been released the Search engine giant has started to show its true colors to Microsoft who is actively contributing to Chromium. The company is now aggressively prompting Edge users on its websites such as Google Search, Google News, Google Docs and Google Translate to  “Switch to the Chrome” browser.

 

 

 

It all started with Chrome Web Store where Google began to recommend Chrome to use extensions securely. While a normal user may not understand and treat this as an ad, non-Chrome and classic Edge users will definitely find the ones appearing now on Google properties as pop-up ads. While folks over at MSPU found this on the search engine giant home page, we noticed they are doing this on their News, Docs and Translate websites as well. We’ve even got an unsupported browser warning for Google Drive albeit for Edge Canary but not in the release version.

 

New Edge users don’t need to jump to Chrome as Microsoft has covered Edge browser which comes with automatic updates with alternate features for Safebrowsing, Google Translate, and Adblocker

 

Chromium Edge too has got Google’s ad blocker enabled in the browser if it thinks Chrome blocks ads on websites that show abusive ads. While Chrome protects its users when they visit dangerous and malware websites via the Safe Browsing feature, new Edge has Microsoft Defender Smartscreen and Potential unwanted Application download protection integrated to guard its users.

 

Talking about updates, Edge Chromium stable too now gets updated regularly like Chrome. If Chrome auto translates pages with its Translate service, new Edge has Microsoft Translator integrated to translate the pages.

 

Google soon will load all websites with slogans to switch to Chrome when it detects you’re using a new Edge browser. Get accustomed to them or ignore or switch to Chrome (will you do that?) or another browser or start using search engines such as Bing, DuckDuck Go and browsers such as Firefox and Vivaldi to get a reprieve from these ads which also protects your privacy to some extent.

 

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[Karlston]

Google getting worried about some serious browser competition?

[Sylence]

Really pathetic. it's a shame for Google.

Microsoft should block these fake ads using their smart screen and built in adblocking system.

[zanderthunder]

Who cares about them, they are not the ones who dictate which browser that user can use.

Besides, EU will only allow users in EU to make the decision on what browser to use and search engine to use.

[zigzag]

Users might think that they don't need Chrome if Chromium Edge already on their computer.

Microsoft has the foundation that other Chromium based browsers lacks.

I call this competition between Microsoft and Google services.

[steven36]

On 2/24/2020 at 8:02 PM, zigzag said:

I call this competition between Microsoft and Google services.

Only competition Microsoft offers for services is are for Businesses  if  any consumers much used Microsoft services or alternatives they would not be looking at those popups when using Edge CR  .  Its not  about services if it was Google  already has the most used services. if they was worried about services they would just leave Edge users alone . Its about they dont want to lose millions of  chrome users to EDGE and they own the most used services so you will have to endure popups  on there websites . If what you say was true consumers would be using Microsoft services but  they offer nothing people  want  Microsoft wanted to force Office  365 users to use Bing but they caved in and backed out because subscribers had a duck .

 

A browser is not a service it's a app  to use with services  and websites.  On Android  and IOS  most services have a app  . Windows UWP  is a failure with consumers and Businesses devs didn't want to port apps to UWP  and the ones that did are pulling out . So only on desktop do you need browsers to access most consumer services unless you use some unofficial win32  app that let you access these websites and take a chance of being banned or not working if you try to sign in . Kodi  works for some . Thunderbird works for email .So Windows users are stuck in the stone age having to use Browsers to access  3rd party services.  The  Update mangers /stores  for Linux and Mac OS have been way more successful than Windows  . On Linux you can just go to the update manger and get lots of good apps and if they dont have  it  you can just add a command and never have to visit a website again.Very few apps i have to go to websites more than once to get updates.  Keeping Windows  updated with system 32 apps  is full time job unless you never update. If you use warez its twice the work.On Windows  they  have hardware acceleration in browsers to stream videos and things on Linux  only if you use patched virgin Chromium do you have such  so most of us use video apps to stream that have hardware acceleration.

 

  That's why  desktop users have a fit  or rejoice when anything changes  with browsers or the websites that power them.  Why would you expect tech rivals to play nice?  Microsoft dont own those sites Google do and  they never have liked non supported apps  to access there sites . The difference in other browsers than Edge is all the other browsers  take money from Google for safe search  and other services . Browsers  that dont have  to change user agents just to play nice on Google sites . So just giving a popup is being nice. 

 

Google is greedy they allreay have billions  of users  on android  . All of windows users combined  is way less users  than Google has . So is Microsoft greedy   but because of Antitrust  and smartphones they lost most of there monopoly power with consumers. 

 

If Windows users wouldnt stuck in the box  browsers would not mean very much to them, but  they live in there browsers because of poor support  of official  apps  and laziness of not utilizing the apps they have .

[zigzag]

Microsoft slowly reacted to the demands of the internet changes then they lost most of their Market Share.

What i meant is that Microsoft has money, workers, background.  They can be a potential rival of Google.