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MS Edge browser wants really hard to stay (www.theverge.com)
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Look at that shit! Before it was here are your two browsers choose! Now it's...how about for the letter A? Suppose a website starts with an A, would you choose Edge to be your default browser?... then you choose chrome or Firefox, and when you click on a link Edge Pops up with some shit like...Are you really sure you wanna use Firefox to view websites that start with the letter A?

Fuck Microsoft! Give us a fucking break you assholes! You are this turd of a company that is just stuck to company's assholes and that's the only reason any fly will ever touch your software.

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[–] DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world 46 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You want us to use Edge? Then stop sucking, and respect our privacy. Oh, wait...that's the antithesis of Microsoft's philosophy.

[–] Kissaki@feddit.de 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Do you consider Edge to be worse than Chrome?

/edit: I asked because they said "You want us to use Edge" when evidently many people do use Chrome, and I don't see Edge being noticeably worse than Chrome.

[–] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It was at least running its own engine until a couple years ago. But now, you may as well use chrome.

But don't use chrome. Use Firefox.

[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Wasn't its engine basically just an updated Internet Explorer engine, though?

[–] King4408@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

It is chrome, but bloated with microsoft crap.

[–] Zeth0s@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

It is chrome with a different tracking system

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

And Google's, Apples, etc, etc.

Mind, I'm not saying that to excuse any of them.

At least at one time MS "produced" (that is to say, acquired) some really great software (Office 4.2 was a massive game changer). But they couldn't wait for everyone to be always connected to implement their telemetry game (which they were actively developing in the mid 90's).