Look at that shit! Before it was here are your two browsers choose! Now it’s…how about for the letter A? Suppose a website starts with an A, would you choose Edge to be your default browser?.. then you choose chrome or Firefox, and when you click on a link Edge Pops up with some shit like…Are you really sure you wanna use Firefox to view websites that start with the letter A?
Fuck Microsoft! Give us a fucking break you assholes! You are this turd of a company that is just stuck to company’s assholes and that’s the only reason any fly will ever touch your software.
For this example, I’m using Google Chrome
So you wrote this whole article about how to switch to the only browser worse than Edge. Well done.
RIP antitrust laws
I can’t believe Micro$oft is still trying to pull this shit after it was fined for this in the European Union.
Hopefully, they’ll fine them again, because this is unacceptable.
No, I don’t use Windows, but people who use it and are less tech savvy should not be jumping through so many hoops to make the switch
I just set my default browser and install MSEdgeRedirect. It’s like EdgeDeflector, except it’s not been abandoned. Its latest version even “grounds CoPilot”, as the dev so nicely put it.
Naggy advertising pop-ups and forced installs vastly increased resistance to Windows 10. So I don’t get how Microsoft doesn’t know it would scare users away from Edge.
Giving marketing the benefit of the doubt, I’d blame executive management for the aggressive push. They’re the ones who push for draconian DRM and crunching based on their feelings.
Yeah, it’s baffling that they don’t learn these lessons, but these kinds of corporations already exist to exploit customers by witholding their products until money is exchanged - in fact they have whole departments dedicated to preventing piracy - so the general lesson of “don’t enshittify your product to attempt to exploit customers” is sort of an existential threat to them.
So they must avoid the lesson, and they do that by replicating that same exploitation relationship internally with their employees, creating a low-information environment where the actual creators of the product cannot be honest with management about what the product needs, and customer service can’t relay the feedback they get from customers. Any information that does get to management, they are free to ignore. Every command flows top down, just like the money flows bottom up.
Did you guys know you can run Edge on Linux natively? I installed it for shits and giggles once before throwing up and apt purging that shit as fast as I could.
Oh, you can run VS Code as well, but I think that IDE is actually kinda useful. At least for the embedded PlatformIO shit I do. If there’s another IDE with that sort of integration as well as Github, then I’m willing to try it.
For a breif moment, you were the entire user base on Linux.
VSCodium- all of the perks, None of the telemetry tracking. Minimal tweaks to a config file lets you use the same plugins that “only” work in VSCode.
Interestingly, if you install Chrome or Firefox, you won’t see them as choices. But if you install the Brave browser, you will see it as an option — and if you select that, then whenever you click on a news link in the Widget pane, it will come up in Brave.
Fick everything about this
Some may call this malware?
I would!
Linux all the way.
Windows is only on kid’s computers. Because they need roblox and generally games run better on windows.
Most stuff on Steam runs very well these days. Anti-Cheat and DRM are the main reasons stuff doesn’t run.
I agree we should use Linux instead of Windows, but some softwares only work on Windows (mostly games) so…
I do all my gaming on Linux at this point. If you don’t play games with invasive anti cheat and even then some of those work now
I couldn’t find a complaint with a quick googling… probably because Google is now a shitty place to find stuff. But check out the process for changing over to another browser. It’s so fucking annoying.
Their design philosophy is so bad. They’ve made probably the most bloated web browser in existence. No wonder people go to Chrome, it doesn’t have 90% of the useless clutter.
