cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1264137/microsoft-blocks-browser-choice-for-1-4-billion-windows-10-11-users-page-84-study-finds
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Full Report(PDF).
Note: The number in the headline is the total number of Windows 10 and Windows 11 users mentioned in page 84 notes in the report.
I work with a lot of fresh-out-of-box windows PCs. When I don’t immediately wipe them completely for a Debian install, the first thing I do in Windows is fire up Edge, download and install chrome and set it as default browser, then delete all Edge shortcuts.
Several iterations of Windows stubbornly re-install the Edge shortcuts, luckily Google can quickly help you make the deletions stick longer. Of course, if they don’t want to respect our choices of how we want our desktop configured, we also have a choice of desktops and OSs.
If you are going to install chrome anyway just stick with edge, it’s the same privacy invading slop with a different coat of paint.
why not firefox though?
Personal preference, Chrome has been a more consistent reliable performer for me over the years.
Yes, Google is evil, but really - everything you interact with on the web is evil, Firefox isn’t protecting you - at least Google occasionally makes it more obvious the scope and depth of your personal information that is being harvested by “the system.”
LibreWolf is good, both in terms of morality and browser usability.
Never heard of it. At 4 years of maturity maybe it’s time for a look, thanks.
You’re joking, right?
Why not chrominum?
I actually used to use chromium nearly full time. I’m too addicted to having my personalization settings “travel with me” between devices. I probably open my browser on 6-10 devices in an average week.
Why not
winget install Google.Chrome? That way you don’t even need to open EdgeToo nerdy, doesn’t send the same message as “ordinary people hate Edge THIS MUCH!”
Is winget pre-installed?
yes
Edge is just a better, way more feature rich but still leaner, more W3C compliant version of chrome though.