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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm y'all's worst nightmare. I would gladly let them collect my data

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I prefer to use edge over chrome due to windows integration and you can install chrome addons. But my default would always be firefox. I only use edge over certain sites that have issues with firefox.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (18 children)

Yea I do get a little tired of all the Windows-hate haha

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The Chromium Edge really started to win me over a bit with how well they have done vertical tabs (Brave only just recently got something even close). Was cool up until Microsoft really seems like they have gotten insecure about trying to be popular again. I fix people's computers so I see it more than a normal user would, so I will just say that now. But it feels like every time I open Edge it seems to just bukkake my eyes with "helpful" pop-ups trying sooo bad to trick me into turning on more and more data collection "features". It is already annoying that they try to cover up the area where the download starts if it detects that it is on the Chrome download page.

But they took what was looking to be a shockingly good alt to Chrome, and I have even gone out of my way from time to time to let customers know that they don't really need Chrome and Edge. Instead I try to at least offer Firefox as a second option. As I do find that if a site is messed up for Chromium based browsers FF might at least give them a usable site until Edge/Chrome starts working again.

That being said, I am really curious how the original Edge would work if they had kept at it. It sucked at first because all browsers suck for awhile when new. The extensions being through the app store seemed about as normal as what Apple does with Safari. But the Edge extensions didn't require first signing into the store in order to get free ones. So that was much less frustrating. Jumping to Chromium just further enabled Google to be on more fuck shit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Edge only exists to download Firefox.

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