{"id":1058,"date":"2008-04-22T12:13:01","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T12:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.hothardware.com:\/\/3e42456d3b87f92c2c8eea885160ed96"},"modified":"2008-04-22T12:13:01","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T12:13:01","slug":"apple-stops-pushing-safari-via-itunes-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=1058","title":{"rendered":"Apple Stops Pushing Safari Via iTunes  Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many have written about how Apple was using iTunes Update to push Safari onto PCs. It was listing Safari as an update even if Safari wasn&#8217;t on the computer originally. Humorously, since then stories have emerged about IT departments having to scramble to remove Safari as the default browser on PCs as it (naturally) wouldn&#8217;t work with many Intranet sites.That practice got many people riled up, complaining that Apple was essentially deceiving people into installing a new program&#8211;Safari 3.1 for Windows XP&#8211;through<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many have written about how Apple was using iTunes Update to push Safari onto PCs. It was listing Safari as an update even if Safari wasn&#8217;t on the computer originally. Humorously, since then stories have emerged about IT departments having to scramble to remove Safari as the default browser on PCs as it (naturally) wouldn&#8217;t work with many Intranet sites.That practice got many people riled up, complaining that Apple was essentially deceiving people into installing a new program&#8211;Safari 3.1 for Windows XP&#8211;through <a href=\"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=1058\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}