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Browser Choice Alliance

@browserchoicealliance.org
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The Browser Choice Alliance is a coalition of browsers dedicated to the idea that consumers should have the right to choose, keep, and use their preferred browser as the default on Windows without that choice being undermined.

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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 29/09/2026
Confusing prompts, forced defaults, and hidden settings are just a few ways Microsoft manipulates user choice. We champion a web where choice belongs to everyone. Learn more: bit.ly/4dd8hw2
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 23/09/2026
Microsoft deliberately engineered its operating system to make installing an alternative browser on Windows difficult. This is what it looks and feels like to be a PC user trying to choose your own browser:
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 14/09/2026
From everyday PC users to leading tech voices like @tomwarren.co.uk, the consensus is clear: Microsoft’s anticompetitive tactics are harmful to the user experience.
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 05/08/2026
It’s not a glitch: Microsoft can override your default browser without your knowledge or permission. This deliberately manipulates how millions of people worldwide access and experience the internet.
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 20/07/2026
Microsoft overrides your preferences like that one colleague who 'just made a few small edits' to your finished report — and somehow changed everything without your permission.
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 09/07/2026
Your OS has no business interfering with your browser choice. Learn more: bit.ly/4vhHDs0
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 01/07/2026
No matter where you go or what you do, Microsoft pop-ups just won’t go away.
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 25/06/2026
Changing your browser shouldn’t feel like a day at Macrofirm.
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 19/06/2026
Browsers are a part of everyday life, and allow users to access the web. When a user’s choice is disrespected, it negatively affects the user experience. Everyone deserves the right to choose: bit.ly/4uBUbKp
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 16/06/2026
ICYMI: Our open letter to Satya Nadella directly calls on Microsoft to respect users’ choice in selecting their preferred browser. Read it on @politico.com: bit.ly/3Qwy9uB
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 08/05/2026
Browsers are the gateway to the internet and a key enabler of other important services, such as AI and productivity tools. That’s why we’re fighting for users’ ability to choose their own browser — to rightfully control their experience online. Learn more: bit.ly/4to55mV
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 05/05/2026
Your browser, your choice. At least that’s what the experience should be. We’re holding Microsoft accountable for failing to respect user choice and instead, acting in its own interest. Learn more: bit.ly/4tjUMAM
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 07/04/2026
Our goal is simple: It shouldn’t be this difficult to use your browser of choice. Learn more: bit.ly/4bXAwyE
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 01/04/2026
The BCA stands for a digital world where everyone is free to choose the browser that best serves them. Learn more about what we stand for — and why it matters: bit.ly/4to55mV
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 31/03/2026
Just when you thought you’ve successfully changed your default web browser, Windows opens the next link in Edge. It’s time Microsoft is held accountable for continuing to disrespect user choice.
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 24/03/2026
Hear CEO of Astian Foundation, Alfonso Hernández, speak to how Windows tricks its users into sticking with Edge as default on PCs.
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 20/03/2026
Ever had a hairdresser who doesn’t listen? Feels an awful lot like trying to pick your browser on a Windows PC.
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 06/03/2026
The @oecd-ocde.bsky.social Competition Open Day 2026 brought insightful discussions on merger control, AI and competition remedies with a clear takeaway: protecting competition and consumer choice on PCs matters more than ever in the age of generative AI.
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 03/03/2026
We're holding Microsoft accountable to DMA compliance measures. At the DMA Working Group meeting of the European Parliament's Committee on IMCO, we highlighted Microsoft’s resistance to and evasion of the DMA's intended enforcement to maintain fair markets and user choice.
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 02/03/2026
We're proud to have sponsored the State of the Browser conference last Saturday, an initiative aimed at promoting fair competition and supporting independent desktop browsers. As browsers play an increasingly central role in our digital lives, ensuring fair competition is more important than ever.
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 27/02/2026
CEO of Astian Foundation, Alfonso Hernandez, reflects on Microsoft’s deceptive tactics that infringe on fair competition and consumer choice. 👇
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 12/01/2026
Customers should be able to change their minds, and users should be able to change their browsers.
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 31/12/2025
Over the past year, we advocated for PC users’ freedom to choose and use the browser of their choice. How? By speaking at & sponsoring events like Smashing Conferences and Pixel Pioneers, garnering impactful media coverage, including in @bloomberg.com, & hosting our very own roundtable. Onto 2026!
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 29/12/2025
Trying to get out of your gym membership is annoying. Choosing a browser shouldn’t be.
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 18/12/2025
If you’re a Windows PC user, Microsoft will do whatever it takes to stop you in your tracks when downloading another browser. It’s manipulative, it’s deceitful, and it’s annoying. Learn more: bit.ly/4j0MXeG
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 15/12/2025
There is a whole menu of browsers out there. You should be able to choose the one you want.
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 04/12/2025
The BCA’s advocacy builds on years of action from members, who now stand united. Our public members — Opera, Vivaldi, Browserworks, Chrome, and Midori — have led the charge in advocating for users’ right to choose.
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 02/12/2025
Microsoft is actively disrespecting its users. Enough is enough. Source: bit.ly/4pg2Obw
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 24/11/2025
Microsoft's tactics create unnecessary roadblocks between you and your destination. Your digital journey deserves a direct route.
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 17/11/2025
Microsoft sabotages both itself and its users by pushing aggressive tactics that coerce users into sticking with Edge against their will — rather than letting them decide for themselves.
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 13/11/2025
Microsoft impedes users’ freedom to choose and use their preferred desktop browser by subjecting them to a series of deceptive tactics that bully users into sticking with Edge. Let’s put a stop to this: bit.ly/4hW0Cn3
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 04/11/2025
CEO of Astian Foundation, Alfonso Hernández, sat down with BCA to share his thoughts on the weight that browser choice holds — to users, to browser developers, and to the internet at large.
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 27/10/2025
Every time Microsoft pushes someone to Edge, it's violating that person's control over their digital experience and ability to navigate the internet on their own terms. It's not just about a browser—it’s about whether a consumer can make their own choices, or if Microsoft gets to decide for them.
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 20/10/2025
“We always want the web to keep moving forward in a really productive and useful way." Tom Beverley, technical co-founder of Wavebox, speaks to how Microsoft does just the opposite. Hear his thoughts on how their anti-competitive actions harm developers, end users, and innovation. 👇
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 08/10/2025
A new article by @techradar.com considers why Microsoft Edge users may be declining. “When something is consistently shoved in your face over the years, the automatic reaction for many people is to start to get suspicious. Why is Microsoft so keen to get me to use Edge?”
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 07/10/2025
The BCA is a proud sponsor of @smashingconf.com New York 2025! Tailored to front-end developers and UX designers, notable speakers will discuss topics like design systems, AI, accessibility and UX research. We hope to see you there!
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 03/10/2025
This week, we gave a preview of our new report on browser competition in Latin America at an event in São Paulo. Alongside BCA members and policy experts, the roundtable discussion covered evolving competition dynamics in browser markets, as well as broader competition trends.
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 29/09/2025
Selective hearing (səˈlektiv/ /ˈhiriNG/): The act of @microsoft.com choosing to ignore the sea of voices begging to use the browser of their choice. Source: bit.ly/3IHl9hG
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 22/09/2025
About to start a support group for anyone who’s experienced this recently. We’re here for you. <3
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 16/09/2025
Live from the @georgetownlaw.bsky.social Global Antitrust Enforcement Symposium today: "There is bipartisan recognition that antitrust can promote innovation, it can promote growth, it can promote dynamism." -FTC Chair, Andrew Ferguson
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 15/09/2025
7-10 months. That’s how long it would take astronauts to travel to Mars. Which, honestly, is nothing compared to the amount of time and torment it takes for a Windows user to try to set the default browser of their choice.
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 10/09/2025
“I’m trying to make sure that the web stays open and available to all.” -Bruce Lawson, Technical Communications Officer at Vivaldi Browser Hear what else he has to say about fair competition and consumer choice:
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 09/09/2025
If Microsoft was a music streaming service… It would ignore your queued songs and play whatever it wants instead. Because that’s what Microsoft does — acts off of its own agenda instead of respecting consumer choice. Learn more: bit.ly/3IHl9hG
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 03/09/2025
When you’ve used your last brain cell to manually find and switch all of your settings away from Edge after changing your default browser…this is what you start seeing.
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 29/08/2025
Microsoft is locking users into Edge. Opera is standing up for your right to choose. Learn more: bit.ly/3VpL2W8
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 20/08/2025
If a barista made it really difficult to order a coffee, they would seem crazy. If your Windows PC made it really difficult to download the browser you want — same vibe. *cough cough* @microsoft.com…we’re looking at you It’s time that users get what they ask for: bit.ly/3HHbcjR
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 19/08/2025
Like the one house fly that survives the winter to torment you…🙃 Source: bit.ly/40Aqayu
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 11/08/2025
When you have to wade through more obstacles than a Spartan Race to set a new default browser, like @firefox.com... It’s time to take a stand: bit.ly/3IHl9hG
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 06/08/2025
IYKYK: When you’re trying to set a new default browser but incessant pop-ups get in your way…
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Browser Choice Alliance @browserchoicealliance.org · 05/08/2025
Raise your hand if you’ve ever been personally victimized by a Microsoft PC changing your settings without consent. … *every PC user’s hand goes up*
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