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You want us to use Edge? Then stop sucking, and respect our privacy. Oh, wait...that's the antithesis of Microsoft's philosophy.
Do you consider Edge to be worse than Chrome?
/edit: I asked because they said "You want us to use Edge" when evidently many people do use Chrome, and I don't see Edge being noticeably worse than Chrome.
It was at least running its own engine until a couple years ago. But now, you may as well use chrome.
But don't use chrome. Use Firefox.
Wasn't its engine basically just an updated Internet Explorer engine, though?
It is chrome with a different tracking system
It's chrome without Google's ad "privacy" bullshit.
It has Microsoft's one, tough. It isn't different
It is different. Chrome automatically opted US users into their new "topics" advertising feature which allows Google to use your browser history to assign topics of interest to you and use it to deliver targeted adverts at you.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2023/09/07/new-google-chrome-targeted-ad-tracking-heres-how-to-stop-it/
A wolkswagen golf and a jeep renegade are 2 different cars, but they are still cars...
If chrome is a blue jeep renegade, edge is a green jeep renegade, with a GM logo and a different gps system
Are suggesting that nobody should use any web browsers because they are all web browsers?
No, I am saying that edge is literally chrome with a different logo and a tracking system that aggregates and sends the same type of data to a different server (a MS server).
If someone feels like chrome is a bad browser, they should use Firefox, which isn't Chrome
I don't disagree about Firefox, but if someone has to use a chromium based browser, Edge is far better than Google Chrome
If someone needs to use chromium based, why not chromium? Ungoogled chromium? Potentialy brave? There are plenty options and Chrome with Edge ties for the last place.
Brave? The browser embedding crypto wallets and redirecting urls through affiliate links?
It's also besides the point. The point is Chrome is one of the worst and using Edge to download Chrome is like trading tobacco for meth and saying "at least I'm not smoking"
That's why I said "potentially". And even if all this is true, it's still better than chrome or edge privacy nightmares...
Tastes... I use both at work and I don't see a difference.
What one should understand is that by using edge they cannot really complain about Google gathering their data. Edge does the same and send them to a different recipient
And Google's, Apples, etc, etc.
Mind, I'm not saying that to excuse any of them.
At least at one time MS "produced" (that is to say, acquired) some really great software (Office 4.2 was a massive game changer). But they couldn't wait for everyone to be always connected to implement their telemetry game (which they were actively developing in the mid 90's).