last month, Microsoft A third-party app called EdgeDeflector has been blocked for users enrolled in the Windows Insider Program and now, the tech giant has blocked the app for all Windows 11 users with the latest build 22000.376. For those who don’t know, whenever users search for anything via the search box in the Start menu, Microsoft takes them to Edge browser and Bing search engine. Apps like EdgeDeflector help users avoid these restrictions and view search results in their favorite browser.
According to Microsoft, the move was necessary for the OS to support its end-to-end encryption features. “Windows also provides some end-to-end customer experience in both Windows 10 and Windows 11, the search experience from the taskbar being one such example of an end-to-end experience that is not designed to be redirected. When we If improper redirection is detected, we issue a correction.” A Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement to The Verge.
Daniel Aleksandrson, developer of the EdgeDeflector app, criticized the company’s move to block the app in his blog. “These are not the actions of an attentive company that no longer cares about its product. Microsoft is not a good manager of the Windows operating system. They are prioritizing ads, bundleware, and service subscriptions over the productivity of their users,” Alexanderson said in his written in the blog.
With its recent moves, Microsoft has made it clear that it wants Windows users to stick to the Edge browser. The tech giant has recently intensified its campaign against chrome When it started displaying prompts like “That browser is so 2008! Do you know what’s new? microsoft edgeWhenever a user visits the Chrome browser download page, the company later retracted from the aggressive strategy.
With the launch of Windows 11, the company also changed the way users assign default apps. On the new operating system, users will have to set default apps according to file type or link type instead of a single switch. This means that to change the default browser, users have to change the default file types for FTP, HTTPS, HTTP, HTML, HTM, PDF, SHTML, SVG, WEBP, XHT and XHTML.
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