• NocturnalEngineer@lemmy.world
    77·
    4 months 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.

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
    391·
    4 months ago

    Edge after you install a security update:

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

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
    38·
    4 months 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.”

      • biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works
        51·
        4 months 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
    295·
    4 months 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·
    4 months 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.

  • TehBamski@lemmy.worldEnglish
    132·
    4 months 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·
      4 months 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
        4·
        4 months 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·
      4 months 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)

  • teft@lemmy.world
    5·
    4 months 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·
      4 months 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.