Microsoft dangles $1 million prizes and Mercedes-AMG cars inside Edge as persistent pop-ups potentially spark fresh “bribery” backlash.

  • cybernihongo@reddthat.com
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    11 hours ago

    I used to use Edge at home, then ditched it. I used it recently at work and it is getting really enshittified. Now I’m between Cromite which works until suddenly the interface freezes, or Ungoogled Chromium which I haven’t got to work on the work laptop (it works now on my home Linux so whatever).

    Edge used to be so much better before today.

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      4 hours ago

      Edge before it adopted Chromium was an excellent browser - fast, standards compliant, rock solid. Adopting Chromium is basically them doing the absolute minimum to ship a browser at all without showing someone else’s logo. We use Edge at work - Chrome and Firefox are also supported - and it shocking how many MDM policies we have to have to make Edge usable.

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        9 hours ago

        Or Librewolf, which is a fork from Firefox and removes the telemetry that Firefox collects.

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          6 hours ago

          That’s too extreme for most people. A lot of people do want certain services to remember they logged in for example. Waterfox is typically the better recommendation - or, was. I’m less trusting of them after they chose to use Brave Browser code for an AdBlocker