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Edge used to so good but recently it has turn into Microsoft adware and spyware software. I thought it was suppose to replace Chrome but it is becoming another Chrome or more evil.



So, are you gonna tell us what you're talking about or just complain about Microsoft? Everyone complains about Microsoft at every opportunity; it's just meaningless noise at this point.


I have been using edge since it's release and on day 1 it was so good with all the google tracking removed or disabled. But now if you see it's like microsoft holding your computer hostage to use edge.

Few months back with each windows update it would reset my browser to edge. It would reset my search engine preference. Force me to use MS account to sync. Show some false unread notification icon so that I open to see that they now have some XYZ feature.


> Everyone complains about Microsoft at every opportunity; it's just meaningless noise at this point.

It still sucks, so yes, people continue complaining.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/03/study...


that's from almost two years ago and is about pre-chromium Edge.

I'm not saying that the story has changed, just that it likely has since this was published.


Why would it have changed? It's the successor product from the same company, and I've seen no evidence that they've changed their approach to... anything... in the time since then.


It is definitely more evil. I use Chromium, which to me is perfect. Not a lot of invasive features and a lot can be configured or disabled using a policy file with Linux. I am honestly pretty disappointed in Firefox as of late. I feel like I have to disable an equal amount of tracking with Firefox as I do Chromium.




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