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Edge 118: updated on-page search may send data to Microsoft
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this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2023
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Who tf uses edge if they have a choice.
It has a very good integration with the rest of Microsoft 365, which we have to use at our company
You've meant to say that they just make it a legit pain in the ass to use anything else.
There is no reason for that otherwise.
Both.
It is a pain in the ass to use the Microsoft online services with eg Firefox. Sometimes it is even impossible to log in for me.
But also the new Enterprise profile in Edge is very good if your company uses all of these services
The biggest problem I have with having to use Edge at my work is how it pushes bing (obviously) as the default search engine.
I swear it only becomes worse with time. Every query is now answered with that awful AI that is never, never on point. Seriously, it just pulls a bunch of random questions only vaguely related to your request and decides to list answers to those instead.
Of course this shit takes a whole screen before the actual search results show up. And at the bottom, just where all decent search engines put a "next page" button, instead they put a shortcut... to the AI crap again, back at the top of the page.
Yup. Coming from the company that brought you IE6 and ActiveX.
"But their cloud push is actually making their services available to more OS's, they're changing" some people said.
Bah
There's a reason they release Edge on fucking Linux, not a single person asked for this.
Imagine being on the team that maintains that though. Must be a very lonely position
There are not too many jobs as thankless as that.
All the stupid people.
People with different skills than you are not stupid. It takes a lot of time, energy, and effort to learn this kind of thing if you’re not interested in it.
We should be kind to others, and not assume superiority because we have skills or knowledge in one area they do not.
Using a privacy-friendly browser takes no more than”skill” than using Edge.
It does, if you need to use the online Microsoft Services. Because In Firefox it sometimes is just not working for me. And I don't want to spend the time to figured out what the problem light be.
Well sure, that’s true. How do you know that edge isn’t privacy friendly? What about the carpenter who just wants to use their computer to pay bills and google stuff? What about the old folks who don’t know how to install something? What about the people who just don’t enjoy using a computer and haven’t had the opportunity to learn about it?
They’re no more stupid than you would be if you were using a cooking utensil the wrong way because you never learned the appropriate way to use it. Or if you use the space below your oven as storage for pans and cookie sheets instead of correctly using it as a broiler. Or maybe you have one that actually is storage. I wouldn’t know, because I cook simple meals and I’m fine with that. It doesn’t make me stupid. Nobody can know everything.
Here’s a relevant xkcd: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/ten_thousand.png
Edge is honestly a decent browser now. It's easily on par with chrome based on features, UX, and privacy issues. It's just a question of who you want to abuse your data: Google or Microsoft.
Firefox is the answer, of course, and it's all I'll use. But when it comes to compatability with websites and zero-issue usability by non-technical users in a work setting, it's hard to beat chromium based browsers.