{"id":790,"date":"2024-02-12T11:39:07","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T17:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/?p=790"},"modified":"2024-02-12T11:39:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T17:39:07","slug":"harmful-design-in-browser-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/harmful-design-in-browser-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Harmful design in browser choice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Props to Cennydd Bowles and Harry Bringnull for <a href=\"https:\/\/cennydd.com\/writing\/major-new-work-harmful-design-in-browser-choice\">calling out this poor behavior on Microsoft&#8217;s part<\/a>. Microsoft Edge is literally injecting a big banner on Chrome&#8217;s download page telling people that Edge is better.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Of all Microsoft\u2019s tactics, the most objectionable for me is their dissuasive messaging injected directly into the Chrome download page. As we write, \u2018for a browser vendor to interfere with the contents of a competitor\u2019s website \u2013 or indeed any website \u2013 with neither due cause nor user consent is highly irregular and ethically indefensible.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>We need to cry foul when browser vendors mess with the actual content on websites. While this just looks like two behemoths clashing heads, how would you feel about Microsoft making editorial choices on <em>your<\/em> website?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Props to Cennydd Bowles and Harry Bringnull for calling out this poor behavior on Microsoft&#8217;s part. Microsoft Edge is literally injecting a big banner on Chrome&#8217;s download page telling people that Edge is better. Of all Microsoft\u2019s tactics, the most objectionable for me is their dissuasive messaging injected directly into the Chrome download page. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sig_custom_text":"","sig_image_type":"featured-image","sig_custom_image":0,"sig_is_disabled":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-beat","tag-browsers"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/edge-messing-with-chrome-thumb.jpg?fit=1000%2C500&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":792,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions\/792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}