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.
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 . . .
Edge after you install a security update:
“I imported all your data and made myself the default”
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
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.
Would not have happened with Linux ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I have it happen with Firefox when I ment to open Brave (don’t crusifie me)
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
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.
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.
Cool. Let’s force it on everyone else then. Go competition!
Browser preference goes Firefox > Edge > Chrome
Firefox > lynx > curl > wget > Edge > Chrome
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
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?
Privacy
there’s already zero expectation of privacy at work so i don’t mind using it there. have fun reading a history of allen bradley manuals from 1987 to 2024 lol
shout out to zscaler for being a heap of spying shit and constantly interrupting my network connections, and lookout for work having access to every permission imaginable.
Does your business care about information security? There might be an argument there.
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