• NocturnalEngineer@lemmy.world
    77·
    20 days ago

    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.

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
    39·
    20 days ago

    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.”

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
    381·
    20 days ago

    Edge after you install a security update:

    “I imported all your data and made myself the default”

  • biggerbogboy
    271·
    20 days ago

    And without your knowledge, it copies all data from your actual browser.

      • biggerbogboy
        3·
        19 days ago

        Shit I should do that too, I already reported it (ACCC), I don’t think a second time is worth it.

      • biggerbogboy
        51·
        19 days ago

        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.

  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
    285·
    20 days ago

    Like all MS products today, it’s actually really good after wasting an hour unchecking all the hidden options that make it unbearable spyware.

  • NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world
    12·
    19 days ago

    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.

    • JohnDClay
      5·
      19 days ago

      Agree, and just viewing PDFs has much less clutter around the outside than Adobe.

  • TehBamski@lemmy.worldEnglish
    133·
    20 days ago

    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.

    • moody@lemmings.world
      141·
      20 days ago

      Everyone gets to have their preference. What’s not ok is MS trying to force it on people who don’t want it.

      • affiliate@lemmy.world
        3·
        20 days ago

        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

    • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
      92·
      20 days ago

      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)

    • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
      71·
      20 days ago

      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…

      • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
        2·
        19 days ago

        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

        • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
          2·
          18 days ago

          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…

  • M137@lemmy.world
    6·
    19 days ago

    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.

  • N00b22@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    19 days ago

    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

  • teft@lemmy.world
    5·
    20 days ago

    Since Shai Halud swallowed up Rita and spit her out (as evidenced by this 1000% true photo of her crawling out of a sand worm) does she get the same powers as Ragnar has in that new Dune show?

    Because if she does, the Power Rangers are turbo fucked.

    • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      2·
      20 days ago

      Fun that you say “turbo fucked” when Turbo was 1.- the first season without Rita in a villain role and 2.- the first seasons where the Rangers canonically lost.