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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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I don't see anyone falling for this either, if they were going to they would already have edge installed.

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[–] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 60 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Plenty of people will fall for that, my mother rarely uses her laptop, so I installed Firefox for her. She got a notification telling her to switch to Edge, so she did. At least she told me so I could switch it back

[–] owen@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I've been rolling out linux mint to some older family members. Firefox gave them troubles (they couldn't identify the logo), but switching in chrome did the trick. I'm now convinced that the most common OS use-case is a browser launcher.

[–] EddoWagt@feddit.nl 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Indeed it is, browsers are very complex pieces of software as well, they're almost like their own operating system

[–] owen@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For sure. And increasingly so. I used to think chromebooks were silly but after this experience I totally see their value: 0->WWW as fast as possible is what people want

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago

Chromebooks were genius

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