The real crime here is downloading Chrome.
Firefox, for privacy protection.
Firefox is great, but :has (a CSS selector supported by WebKit but not Gecko) is starting to get a lot more popular.
Good?
with the added trust of Microsoft
That’s rich.
If you type your username into the android dialler, it has a easter egg
Yup! But I think it only works on stock dialer.
I have to use Windows for work, and every single day, I open Outlook and I’m greeted with “WE RESPECT YOUR PRIVACY, please share your data with us.” And every day I say “Don’t share optional data.” Clearly there’s a fucking problem here.
No you misunderstood, that’s “WE INSPECT YOUR PRIVACY”
Thirstily?
The article doesn’t count the popups you get when you try to change your default browser
One of their choices should have been: "This survey is exactly the reason I am going to a different browser. "
Way too realistic, they don’t want to hear shit like that. Way too true.
Because they know what’ll happen. And they don’t want to have to address it at the next quarterly.
They really had the foresight not to add an “other” option. Says a lot
“My reason is not listed” is the same thing.
I was thinking more like an “Other” with a free input field
Being slightly forceful might work, but being too forceful has the opposite effect. I’ve seen a lot of people avoiding Edge not because of its technical demerits, or due to lack of knowledge, but because MS forces it so much down your throat that something “feels” off.
And not only that, but the stupid front page with stupid irrelevant news, some of which are literal, blatant attempts at fraud - “[random B-celeb from your country] has a money making tip They don’t want you to know!” and that sort of shit - in the browser they relentlessly push, nag about or just “accidentally” reset as default every cunting week.
Dozens of popups, random notifications - like… why? What person with, I assume, at least half a brain stem in their head could possibly think these were good ideas?
“I don’t give a shit, show me the web page and shut the fuck up!” has turned into a mantra when I have to use Edge. That’s not good.
On our company PCs we have both Edge and Chrome, after the latest Windows update a few days ago, every time I try to set Chrome as default browser, a window pops up saying something on the lines of “are you sure? please try out the fabulous Edge first, you might change your mind”.
That annoys me to no end, first we are in EU, where Microsoft has been fined in the past for not allowing a browser choice, second, we’re talking about Windows ENTERPRISE !!, keep that shit out of it, policies on PCs are decided at enterprise level, you can’t spam users about it.
I recently installed Edge for a technical reason and was instantly grossed out by all the stupid bling they’ve added to it.
I recently installed Edge for a technical reason
was it playing around with bing’s AI chatbot? because I did it for that reason. all of ten minutes before getting bored at least.
No, it was to run Teams as a PWA on Linux.
Honest to god, the browser that wins is the one with the least bullshit popping up in my face when I open it
Who wants to use any product or service this desperate to try and keep you.
I dont really use windows often outside of my work devices these days, but even if I did I wouldnt use edge as a primary browser based on how things rolled with IE6 and active X.
Yeah yeah youre a new friendlier Microsoft, webstandards and html5 are more locked in, and your browser is a chrome fork, and you “<3 Linux”. I remember what you are and how you locked down the web when you had a chance. Personally I dont use chrome for the same reason given the direction google has been heading.
But to answer “why not Edge?”: because you spent the better part of the last few decades sucking and amoral companies dont deserve the benefit of good faith.
I never had this problem to put Vivaldi or any other browser instead of EDGE. Maybe i’m still with W10, maybe the last Windows which can be tamed. The only thing is that in Windows it isn’t enough to declare the browser as default in the browser settings, you must do it also in the Windows default app settings too, but after this you’ll never seen EDGE again, at least in W10.
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Ungoogled Chromium requires so much work to be usable, on top of having no built-in updater. That’s a really bad recommendation. Have you looked at the steps to even install widevine? You even have to open up chrome flags to manually install an addon that lets you install add-ons.
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I swear Microsoft, particularly the Windows and Edge divisions, have consultants on retainer directly from Hell - specialists in making things absolutely infuriating for no particularly good reason.
MS is getting so thirsty it’s pathetic. All the Win 11 garbage and now this. It’s sad really.
I develop software that runs on Windows, so I have to use it to some degree. I would pay so much money for an officially-supported version that lets me cut out all the shit I don’t need and not deal with stupid thirst tricks. For the longest, I just ran Windows Server in a VM.
try Windows LTSC
Sadly only available for large corporations
^or ^the ^ports ^of ^the ^bay
Lemmy (as in the default frontend) requires an extra caret at the end of superscripts:
^or^ ^the^ ^ports^ ^of^ ^the^ ^bay^not a bot, but at this point I might make one
Huh, looks fine to me
edit: checked in browser and yours looks fine in that, but in my app it adds an extra ^
Oh nice, another client-dependent formatting thing.
“Thirstily”? Really? You couldn’t find any alternative word?
Moistly?
How you took it is exactly how it was meant to come across.
