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Microsoft Edge Pushes an "All in One Browser" Message on Chromeβs Download Page
(windowsreport.com)
Lmao that gave me a really good laugh. Its so real man, they just need your data so badly.
The "say no later" button is missing
I had chances to peek into some of my friends' laptop and was surprised how many of them are using Edge. MS's strategy looks pretty stupid, but it's actually working.
I see no reason to use chrome over edge. Iβm a Firefox guy these days, but if I have to use a chromium browser, Iβm using edge.
Why not just plain chromium?
Well, assuming that you are on windows, it's a whole extra step.
Same shit, different color logo.
Edge is already installed for the half dozen times a year I need to specifically use a chromium-based browser.
Might I suggest vivaldi
shrug any major benefits of google branded chromium over microsoft branded chromium are a moot point to me since google curb stomped fully functional adblocking extensions.
People have always defaulted to the... default.
Whether that is safari on a mac or internet explorer, and now edge, on windows. And if you are already going to deal with chromium's bullshit... edge is perfectly fine.
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I prefer Edge over Chrome, and if I had to choose one, Edge is definitely better. But gladly I don't have to choose one and never will. Been with Vivaldi for years after switching off FF.
Could you tell me what you like about Vivaldi over Firefox? Or what advantages it has? Genuinely curious.
I'm not the person you were replying to, but I enjoy Vivaldi's tab grouping and window splitting features, specifically. The fact that they haven't been actively trying to shove AI down my throat is also a plus.
Itβs working because a lot of people are pretty stupid.
It's working because Edge isn't IE and it's actually a decent browser. It's just Microsoft chromium instead of Google chromium.
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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.
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Just a reminder that you dont need to touch Edge to download a browser on w11.
With cmd:
Librewolf: winget install -e --id LibreWolf.LibreWolf
or
Firefox: winget install -e --id Mozilla.Firefox
But why touch win11 in the first place??
Not everyone is as far along in their journey to freedom.
Also some of us are stuck with necessary stupid software that has no Linux releases and doesn't run in proton/wine yet.
I've had great success with winboat for a lot of software including m365.
Did winget replace chocolatey?
winget ships with Windows by default, so it is a particularly good option for folks who don't want to modify their Windows computer much, or have limited permissions.
I understand that Winget is based on chocolatey to some degree.
I guess it's cool that Windows finally has an official package manager.
Yes. It is very little, very late.
But it was a huge quality of life relief to me, when I still had a Windows install to deal with.
But there has to be a twist!
How long before windows is literally an edge browser with permanent copilot ?
I give it a year.
So ChromeOS?
Your computer won't even be a computer, just a display with an Internet connection to a data centre.
As much as I would personally hate that, it honestly wouldn't be a bad choice for my aging parents and my IT load when I visit them.
Linux is likely in their future, but thin clients for them would greatly reduce and centralize their compute considering what they actually need.
Have you used any of the Microsoft cloud products?
It's completely ridiculous how bad they are, especially for admins.
Microsoft could even push its AI summaries as a RAM-friendly version of visiting website pages.
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They wanted to do that with internet explorer but regulators weren't monopoly-friendly back then.
They DESPERATELY want you to use Edge because they DESPERATELY want to watch what websites you visit, for how long, and what you click on. They want to know EVERYTHING about you:
What you buy, what you masturbate to, what you like and donβt like, how you vote, what you watch, what music you like, the clothes you wear, what you children are like, what movies you watch, who you knowβ¦ THEY WANT TO KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU SO THEY CAN USE IT AGAINST YOU: ADS. PROPAGANDA. VOTES. CONTROL.
WE ARE BEING FARMED
Always have been... but Google is just as bad, so installing Chrome isn't going to help you there. Honestly, even FF or anything else on Windows wont even get you out of that fate. They've proven they take screen shots, likely log keypresses, etc.
This isn't new or even newsworthy anymore. Being okay with these sorts of things is like, literally part of EULA's and such for decades. And people willingly give up privacy in trade for whatever service or product they're choosing.
They can do a lot of that now with Recall even if you use Chrome.
They also want you to use their browser because they want to direct you to bing/copilot and get ad revenue from all of your clicks.
Literally malware tactics from the year 2000.
When are they going to stop with these childish attempts?
When it stops working.
Didn't they get sued multiple times for pulling shit like this before?
Regulators were less friendly back then
As much as I dislike Microsoft, I see no reason for Windows users to download Chrome when Edge is right there.
There's plenty:
- Not supporting monopolistic practices.
- User preferences.
- Diversifying your software so you don't get trapped in an ecosystem.
- Not having Copilot stuffed down your throat.
- User preferences.
- Making it possible to rip Edge out of Windows for the purpose of debloating.
Sure we should always have choice but if you're hopping out of Microsoft's monopoly into Google's is there even any point?
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Apart from being chromium, Edge was pretty good until it released, then it had all the Microsoft bullshit added.
Microsoft was probably the only firm with the resources to keep a Chromium fork current while uneinding Google's enshittifications. But their incentives are too similar for that.
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