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 without your knowledge, it copies all data from your actual browser.
Yeah, Edge has been forbidden to execute in my antivirus (ESET HIPS) for a long time now.
Shit I should do that too, I already reported it (ACCC), I don’t think a second time is worth it.
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.
Edge after you install a security update:
“I imported all your data and made myself the default”
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.”
You want to open a .R script that you wrote for R using R-studio . . .
Ok I’m only going to say one nice thing about edge, the PDF editing functionality is on par with Adobe and it’s free.
Agree, and just viewing PDFs has much less clutter around the outside than Adobe.
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
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.
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…
And it still ends up being worse than its FOSS competitor…
No MS product I have interacted with in the last couple years I would consider good, even ignoring the spyware.
I used Edge but stopped once they began adding ads (the only way to disable them are via flags and that doesn’t even disable all)
Then around this year it began to automatically open after updating so I blocked the executable from running via regedit
Would not have happened with Linux ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I have it happen with Firefox when I ment to open Brave (don’t crusifie me)
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.
You can’t say that on lemmy man it’s illegal.
If that’s illegal, I’m sure saying that I don’t use Linux nor have I ever used Linux, to be highly illegal.
It’s been an hour, how is this man still alive /s
Just like the United Healthcare CEO assassin… they haven’t found me yet.
Travel time
but then you wouldn’t know that Edge runs perfectly well on Linux too lol I use Edge every day on Linux without issue but only for work related stuff
Everyone gets to have their preference. What’s not ok is MS trying to force it on people who don’t want it.
completely agree. i think a lot of people (myself included) will probably never give edge a fair chance because of how insidious and annoying microsoft has been about trying to get people to use it. i don’t really hate edge as a browser (i’ve never really tried it), but i do hate the feeling of the browser being forced upon me
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I did a fresh install of windows 11 and I opened edge the first time only to crash after a second because it couldn’t handle the fact that I wasn’t signed into a Microsoft account.
It crashed immediately every successive attempt to open it.
After the 15th try (mostly for my own amusement) I downloaded Firefox from the windows store so that there’d be a functional browser in the VM I had just set up for someone to use to run essentially the last scamware app he still needs for hopefully not much longer (cough intuit cough)
I think you can do winget install Mozilla.Firefox?
Vs Chrome? Naw. Everyone’s allowed their opinion, but those who prefer Edge usually haven’t actually used modern Firefox, especially with the right extensions. I never install it without uBlock Origin and Consent-O-Matic…
I honestly can’t remember a time where I preferred Chrome over Firefox.
I had never heard of Consent-O-Matic. It works for Firefox on Android too! I couldn’t install it fast enough! Thanks for that! :D
I don’t know why I don’t hear much about it, but they made all extensions work with Firefox mobile about a year ago! I didn’t even use Firefox on my phone until then…
Cool. Let’s force it on everyone else then. Go competition!
Browser preference goes Firefox > Edge > Chrome
Firefox > lynx > curl > wget > Edge > Chrome
HOLY AI UPSCALE WITH CLARITY, BATMAN!!
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
While that’s an argument against Brave, I don’t think anybody who would care would use edge
It’s faster, and it’s already there
But I would never use Brave to begin with because of their monetization/adblocking
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