Vivaldi slams Microsoft's recent Edge moves calling them "openly abusing" and "desperate"

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In the latest of such developments, we found the company calling its own browser more trustworthy than Google's "so 2008" Chrome, though there may certainly be some truth to it.

In a recent blog post by Vivaldi CEO Jon von Tetzchner titled "Microsoft back to its old tricks to get an edge on the competition", the Edge rival has slammed Microsoft over this "blatantly anti-competitive" practice, calling it "openly abusing" and "desperate".

it is frustrating in 2021 to find Microsoft blatantly engaging in anti-competitive practices once again
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Microsoft’s moves seem desperate. And familiar.

[..] This is not the behavior of a confident company developing a superior browser. It’s the behavior of a company openly abusing its powerful position to push people to use its inferior product, simply because it can.

The post has been headlined with the image (above) showing Microsoft's Edge in the form of the Devil with two horn-like projections protruding out from the top of Edge's logo.

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Vivaldi slams Microsoft's recent Edge moves calling them "openly abusing" and "desperate"

Vivaldi has slammed Microsoft over the latter's aggressive moves in trying to make more people adopt the Edge web browser. It has called out Microsoft's moves as "desperate" and "openly abusing".

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[Sorrento]

I've noticed the pop-ups as I use Brave as default, not a major issue from my point of view, a while back Chrome was bundled with most shareware programs This sort of thing has been going on for years until it's reined in again.