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Fury Erupts After Google Chrome Sneakily Installs 4 GB AI Model On Users' PCs (futurism.com)
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[–] 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

Chrome is an alternative browser for most people.
I know someone who insists they realy like Edge.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    To be fair, it’s really easy to switch to edge, you just use the browser you currently use, then after a bit you open edge and viola, all your data was transferred without your consent, including passwords, tabs, cache, everything.

    (Source: happened to me 3 times)

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    I prefer Edge to Chrome, but if you want or need a Chromium based browser there are better options. I personally prefer Waterfox which is not Chromium based mostly for the shorter UI chrome which leaves more room for the content.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    Yeah.

    Edge still has its problems, but it's nowhere near the hot mess it wass in 2015 when it was basically a reskinned IE. Once they switched to Chromium it was still a hot mess, butit did get polished and has all the features you'd expect of a modern browser.

    That being said, Edge is the main innovator behind built-in AI chats and similar bloat, which Chrome also likes to shove down people's throats.

    And although the feature has existed as a Firefox addon for ages, I think the first browser to support tab groups and horizontal tabs was Edge.

    So since both are pretty on-par feature (and bloat) wise, run the same engine and are made and maintained by billion-dollar corpos gobbling user data, both seem like two sides of the same coin.

    So for 'normies', it pretty much boils down to which ecosystem you're more ingrained - that will make you prefer Edge or Chrome.

    Us lunatics on Linux and/or ActivityPub prefer an independent option.

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