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Microsoft click-baits users with useless 'How to Uninstall Microsoft Edge’ instruction doc
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this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2025
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Me: Uninstall Edge.
Them: You can't uninstall Edge.
Me: Why not?
Them: It's integrated into Windows
Me: So I can uninstall Edge
Them: No, I just said--
Me: Uninstall Windows
Them: No wait!
Didn't they get in trouble years ago for the same "integrated" bullshit with IE?
Oh yeah, and they definitely learned their lesson by paying 0.00001% of the profits they made by doing it. So for sure this is not the same thing because that "punishment" totally worked, right?.... Right!? ʘ‿ʘ
Best way is use Linux.
You can just install Edge as a Flatpak. Problem solved /s
I use Edge for exactly one thing: Power Automate.
I know you can use it on other browsers but for my very simple purpose, it fits the bill.
Every fucking time, the browser asks if I want to make it default. The answers are "Yes" and "Not now".
WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO "NO, DON'T ASK ME AGAIN"?!
That option has been removed for your convenience. Isn't nice to not have control over the hardware you paid for?
Embrace. Extend. Extinguish.
Their own browser?