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

I think I am okay with this popup, I mean they are asking whats wrong with their product. They arent trying to break something in Chrome or like that.

If Edge stops forcing everyone with their "new and improved AI powered..." stuff, it is better than Chrome.

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

Am I victim of the Mandela effect or did this happen some years ago too? I remember setting up chrome on win10 in my tech-normie days and getting a similar thing, maybe my memory is failing me.

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

They've been doing it for years, but in slightly different ways. Chances are you remember one of their numerous pathetic attempts to prevent switching from their spyware.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Edge was good at launch, it's still okay but it's kind of a bloated mess now

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

but it’s kind of a bloated mess now

That's Chrome and all its varieties, to be fair

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

I use Opera because it uses less memory on my tiny $175 laptop.

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

Honestly Edge might be better at this point but it really doesn't matter. Google won the browser war years ago and people have too much inertia to care

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

They think Chrome as everybody have a Gmail account but not Microsoft account. I dont think you can login to Edge with a Google account and get all your stuff there. At minimum you first must install Chrome, then start Edge and trigger the import process - but why do that when you now already have Chrome installed?

This is true for all other browsers.

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

The stupid sidebar on the right is reason enough for me, but I also want an adblocker that's not crippled.

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