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    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.

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        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.

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    Edge after you install a security update:

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

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    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.”

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    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.

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    Like all MS products today, it’s actually really good after wasting an hour unchecking all the hidden options that make it unbearable spyware.

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    And then begins the gruelling quest of navigating all the “how many ways can we ask how much we can spy on you and change settings so this happens more often, so we can track you more, ooh look here, new features! (They’re just fronts for more tracking)” pop-ups which seem never ending.

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    I used Edge but stopped once they began adding ads (the only way to disable them are via flags and that doesn’t even disable all)

    Then around this year it began to automatically open after updating so I blocked the executable from running via regedit

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    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.

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      Everyone gets to have their preference. What’s not ok is MS trying to force it on people who don’t want it.

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        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

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      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)