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Microsoft Edge Pushes an "All in One Browser" Message on Chrome’s Download Page (windowsreport.com)
submitted 7 hours ago by throws_lemy@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Microsoft is trying a new way to stop users from downloading Google Chrome. If you open the Chrome download page in Microsoft Edge, you may see a new banner at the top. This version looks different from the usual prompts that ask users to stay with Edge.

I'm curious, what if I download Firefox from Edge? 🤔

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (3 children)

It’s working because a lot of people are pretty stupid.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

It's working because Edge isn't IE and it's actually a decent browser. It's just Microsoft chromium instead of Google chromium.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

Yeah, but chrome/chromium is relegated to trash-tier now, due to the introduction of manifest v3 and the blacklisting of uBlock Origin.

[–] nullroot@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

As far as chromium based browsers go, edge is actually one of the best. I have a portable degoogled chromium I keep locked in a vault myself, but that's only because I ripped edge out of windows. If I wasn't the type of person that got irrationally furious about edge running in the background using up system resources doing whatever the fuck windows was having to do, I would just use edge when I needed a chromium browser.

[–] BossDj@piefed.social 1 points 6 hours ago

And I'm pretty sure our heavy capitalist model is the main reason