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Microsoft Edge, anyone? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I recently discovered that you can get Microsoft Edge for Linux (🤢🤮) and am curious... does anyone here use Edge for Linux, or have you ever? What was your reasoning for using it?

EDIT: Well, you all have provided some interesting perspectives I hadn't ever considered. Including one which means I'll have to install Edge, so... thanks, I guess. 😂

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[–] 11 points 3 years ago (6 children)

How is edge more efficient? It's literally chromium

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Chrome is basically Chromium+bloat so this doesn't surprise me.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago

    And Edge is chromium + Microsoft Bloat.

    One could argue using it on Windows means only allowing M$ to spy on you, theoretically. Though I would not be surprised if M$ uses a custom version of Chromium including Google trackers, so the opposite of degoogled chromium.

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  • [+] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    The core browser is still good, but they keep changing and adding annoying things and doing questionable privacy things like sending images to their servers “for enhancement”. For a while they removed the ability to remove sync data, but I think it may have been added back again after backlash.

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