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[–] [email protected] 128 points 1 year ago (3 children)

use Firefox, it comes with free fox ears and a tail

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Or librewolf! It comes with a free fully featured (πŸͺ’) fur suit! Don’t ask me how I know.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

and a free bachelor's degree for computer science?

[–] eclipse 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Comes in the sweaty fursuit

[–] Jumuta 7 points 1 year ago

librewolf πŸ₯°πŸ₯°

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And fennec comes with a maid outfit

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what other kind would it be?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yes now go download it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Firefox has Foxkeh so firefox is for me

[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You will take your spyware infused Chromium and you will like it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Chromium has spyware installed by default.

Microsoft at least removed most of Chromes trackers, while adding their own.

But I'd trust Microsoft a hell of a lot more than Google.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you're already using Windows, they track your shit anyway. So Edge it is.

If you're using Linux, obviously you wouldn't be using Edge.

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

If you're using Linux, obviously you wouldn't be using Edge.

Says you, it's pretty good for streaming 1080p content sometimes. For a while it was the only way to get 1080p streams from Netflix on Linux so it does have limited utility.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago

Go back to reddit, Microsoft.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm confused, does this meme think it is a good browser? If so, where's the meme?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The meme is incomplete.

The man asked the woman how she thinks she is perceived. She answers wrong multiple times and then he lets her know the reality. (I thinkβ€”I've never seen it).
So in this version of the meme the man asks Edge how it thinks it's perceived and it answers incorrectly.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago

Edge is not good. It is, at best, ok. It constantly gets in your way with its invasive β€œfeatures”. And the only parts of it that are good are the parts of it that are Chromium. Use any other better Chromium based browser if you want those.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where is the rest of the meme

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Is this a compliment to Google? Edge is just chromium with few eye candies, custom settings and original tracking system replaced by Microsoft tracking system.

We know it is a good browser, Google engineers are in general good engineers

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

Chrome is Google, and it is based on chromium, an open source project

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Android is also open source and developed by Google... these aren't mutually exclusive

If you want chromium without Google get 'ungoogled chromium'

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

A project being open source does not mean it isn't owned and controlled by a company. Chromium is entirely controlled by Google. It accepts contributions and fixes from others, but Google has the last say on everything, so it still has lots of Google telemetry.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Microsofts shenanigans with forcing you to use their browser is just ridiculous. They do allow you to switch to another browser but make it as annoying as possible and they constantly try to annoy you into switching again. I mean they own the whole os. They could literally just force you to use the browser and I bet nobody would care for like more than a month because windows is like the only feasible choice as an operating system for a lot of people.

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

They tried that a long while back. They got slapped down hard legally because that's a monopolistic business practice and is illegal.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

me when im a dirty liar

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used to love it, but now they keep adding annoying things like Bing chat, Bing chilling, Bing bros

It's annoying having to find these hidden ass settings and disable it. So I just use firefox

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Flithy, flithy lies

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Since when did Edge become a good browser?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not, that's the joke.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I get that now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ohhh.. my bad!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It became decent after switching to Chromium.

It is basically Chrome with a Microsoft skin.

Whether or not you like Chrome is up to you, but it is still the biggest browser to date.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The only two browsers Microsoft pretends to exist.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

don't do IE dirty like that :(

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

This is the future of ads. Beware

[–] Timecircleline 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think the joke is most people just use edge to download their actual preferred browser.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Edge is good, yeah, but there are way better alternatives out there (privacy speaking). The closest ones being Vivaldi (in terms of features) and Floorp (Firefox fork).

I use Firefox because it came with Ubuntu and because I haven't had any issues with it, but I would've used Vivaldi if it weren't the case.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Vivaldi mobile is goated for having a bottom bar + tabs.

Vivaldi desktop feels a bit clunky to me, I think edge beats it out in terms of performance and being more lightweight.

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