Comment by marcosdumay
1 year ago
They switched because Google bundled invisible Chrome installers in other software that would not only make its browser the default, but also invisibly steal IE clicks.
A move that was widely celebrated at the time.
1 year ago
They switched because Google bundled invisible Chrome installers in other software that would not only make its browser the default, but also invisibly steal IE clicks.
A move that was widely celebrated at the time.
Source?
https://www.reddit.com/r/windows/comments/w9fd1g/new_compute...
Must say it's really hard to find who might have paid for a bundled installer. Filezilla I remember had a lot of those and some forum threads will mention a specific "offer" they got, but there's no listing anywhere, and it's not in the source code history because they were (so I just read) dynamically fetched from advertisement servers upon launching the installer. Searching the web for Google Chrome bundling (phrased a few different ways), you get mostly present-day results about how to install Chrome or how to bundle it as sysadmin in a Windows group policy or something. This is the one thread I found where it sounds like computer manufacturers bundled it, but if there's many more then I'm not sure I'd have found it
GP said:
> Google bundled invisible Chrome installers in other software that would not only make its browser the default, but also invisibly steal IE clicks.
An anecdote from someone who "bought a second hand laptop off ebay" and found Chrome preinstalled isn't relevant.
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