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Microsoft will let users uninstall Edge, Bing, and disable ads on Windows 11 as it complies with the Digital Markets Act (www.windowscentral.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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First RCS now this, today has been wild

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[–] 548 points 2 years ago (32 children)

I'm a Linux guy and I don't really care about Windows, but I'm glad to see this happening and every day I thank Europe for being the main entity fighting for regulation of big tech monopolies, because America is really failing.

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  • [–] 168 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Its nuts that during the Obama admin, all anyone cared about was the threat of zero privacy. Now everyone in the US has surrendered to it, because our politicians have sold our digital privacy rights to the tech companies.

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  • [–] 117 points 2 years ago* (6 children)

    If we had actual IT giants in Europe, this would look very different.

    I've seen how the car industry in Germany only got a slap on the wrist because of Dieselgate and even got the chance to send out advertisement payed by the government.

    I feel like the only reason stuff like this gets pushed so hard is because we try to slow down the current IT giants until we get our shit together.

    I'm glad that we do it, but i wouldn't say we are better than anyone else.

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  • [–] 44 points 2 years ago

    Thanks for the honest take, a lot of people get caught up in the idea that if an organization does something that aligns with them, they are good or doing it for the same reasons.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago

    There is a lot of protectionism at the heart of the EU. They are quite happy to heavily regulate Big Tech when it’s not based in their own market. Unfortunately they don’t have quite the same passion for nurturing the European tech industry as much as stifling the foreign ones.

    They are it purely fighting these fights for the greater good, or they wouldn’t also be pushing things like the recent browser certificate debacle.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Yeah because dieselgate was a travesty and all companies have a moral obligation to find ways around the idiocy of the US EPA as they actively make our cars more harmful to the environment by writing poorly thought out rules that encourage larger vehicles as well as completely failing to understand how to calculate diesel emissions for vehicles in a sensible manner.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Nah, it still would be much harder.

    Because the EU exists out of many different countries with each their own government.

    To lobby something through you have to bribe the majority of them, instead of just one.

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    EU is very much a mixed bag. On the one hand, they do this, on the other hand, they tried to ban P2P encryption and microtargetted religious and elderly in resisting countries, feeding them the classic "it's for the children's safety" lies.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago*

    Though we have to remind ourselves that it's mainly the EU Commission who does this.

    The Supreme Court spoke out against it from the very beginning, the Parliament voted against it, it's really only the Commission who doesn't want to understand that EU law applies to them, too.

    Quite a few positions in there that need to be held by new people who understand the damn law.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    America is getting paid to do it.
    Maybe the FCC is still resisting for now.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    How do you know someone uses Linux?

    Don't worry they'll tell you

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (5 children)

    I use Linux (one that's based on Arch btw) Make one guess at:

    • my diet
    • what I think is the best text editor

    Seriously, how am I supposed to keep quiet when I find a clearly superior choice? Especially when most people feel a psychological barrier to trying it, that turns out to be not nearly as big as the adcantages.

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