It's never accidental...
You click a link in an MS app and it launches Edge regardless of the default browser setting, then plays it off as a "feature".
Every. Fucking. Time.
And then begins the gruelling quest of navigating all the "how many ways can we ask how much we can spy on you and change settings so this happens more often, so we can track you more, ooh look here, new features! (They're just fronts for more tracking)" pop-ups which seem never ending.
And without your knowledge, it copies all data from your actual browser.
Wait, what?!
Yep, I accidentally opened a news article when the news panel slid out without my knowledge, then I realised all my tabs, bookmarks, passwords, everything, was imported from chrome to edge. No consent, no nothing, it wasn't even the first time I opened edge, it was just that this time it involved my data. Safe to say I reported it to the ACCC (Australian competition and consumer commission) and did as much as I could to erase my data from edge and stop edge from opening as easily.
I love this meme but have no proper nerds in my life that would understand and appreciate it.
That's why we hang out on Lemmy
Windows: "Oh you want to open a PDF? You must want to use an MS Web Browser."
User: "No Thank you Windows, please use app X"
Windows: "I got you fam, app X for PDFs from now on"
...later...
Windows: "Oh you want to open a PDF? You must want to use an MS Web Browser."
Browser preference goes Firefox > Edge > Chrome
Firefox > lynx > curl > wget > Edge > Chrome
Would not have happened with Linux ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I have it happen with Firefox when I ment to open Brave (don't crusifie me)
So are the other browsers Power Rangers?
Well at least Chrome is kinda multicolor...
Firefox tho... I can't recall the last season that had a mammal ranger (it's usually dinosaurs or vehicles), let alone an orange Ranger.
Like all MS products today, it's actually really good after wasting an hour unchecking all the hidden options that make it unbearable spyware.
And then check peridoically for new options that you have to turn off...
And the old settings that have been mysteriously switched back on...
No MS product I have interacted with in the last couple years I would consider good, even ignoring the spyware.
So Linus, et al are the power rangers
Haters gonna hate. But I've been using Edge for a year now as my main browser and I prefer it over Google's browser. Yes, it was built on the Chromium open-source project. But the end result is what I was after. Something that wasn't just Google's 'X.' Industry competition is very much needed.
Everyone gets to have their preference. What's not ok is MS trying to force it on people who don't want it.
If you’re on Windows then it’s the best Chromium browser available
That's like the best-tasting pile of human excrement.
What makes you prefer it to say Brave? Last time I used Edge it was so unusable that I could barely browse the web without it crashing etc
It’s faster, and it’s already there
But I would never use Brave to begin with because of their monetization/adblocking
Been using edge mostly because it's the default supporter browser for work apps and actually works really well.
Whatever it does, it is good at it
I mean, it's a web browser, what did you expect?
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