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[–] 135 points 2 years ago (1 child)

You’re right, Microsoft. I should get Firefox instead

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  • [–] 103 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Changing from Edge to Chrome is like changing from Coke to Pepsi for health reasons.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I find edge uses less resources of my computer, I can have it open while on youtube while I game but I can't do that with chrome.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    On my surface go 2 I get a better experience in terms of battery life etc than with edge than the others (I've experimented with chrome and Firefox). So I just use edge on everything for the sync stuff. Sure has a ton of "helpful" stuff in it I have to hide it turn off though.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    ye when's the day ppl start making fun of chrome too for all the crap they're pulling

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    That day is now. You people literally never shut the fuck up about Chrome and you're acting like nobody's talking about it lol

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The only reason I have Chrome installed is because corp IT installed it for me and won't let me uninstall it. Meanwhile, I can uninstall Firefox with no issues.

    Also, if I go too long without opening Chrome, I get a scary email telling me Chrome is out of date and I need to update it.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Like, ages ago? Google has been called out on their shady shit tons of times, it just doesn't have much of an effect because Chrome isn't as objectively crap as IE was. It works and it's familiar, for most people that's all that really matters. They have "NotHiNg to HidE" after all.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    If you were reading the comment I'm replying to and thinking to yourself "well, if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear", let me ask you something.

    When you go to the bathroom, do you close the door?

    Do you think we should have security cameras in every public bathroom stall watching every man, woman, and child who does their business just to make sure nobody's doing drugs in there? (Criminalization of addiction is an entirely separate issue, but you get the point.)

    No? You're worried about perverts watching the security tape?

    Now you understand why we want online privacy.

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    My new job keeps telling me in order to correctly use their website, I need to use edge or chrome.

    So far I haven't had any issues except them constantly reminding me in emails.

    This makes me wonder what edge and chrome are giving them behind the scenes that Firefox doesn't.

    No part of my job has been impacted, but they're so insistent.

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  • [–] [S] 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I'm not in IT, but my assumption has always been that someone on the IT side is desperate to keep things simple and is worried about double-checking everything in more than one browser. Or maybe they just don't want help desk calls from tech-illiterate employees who somehow managed to log in from Netscape.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    netscape

    There's a name I haven't heard since, ohhh.... Before my nephew was born.

    I usually assume that's the case whenever a company says "this browser on a desktop is preferred" but they send me daily personalized emails about it and trying to reinforce "it's very important that you do it this way" that makes me feel like it's something else

    If I'm making extra work because forms don't work right or something, they're not telling me that. I still wouldn't download the browsers, but I'd be more empathetic about it (for the guy who has to fix the problems)

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Firefox.

    Or if you really want fuck with them, Pale Moon.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    I've never used chrome, but I'd go back to a microsoft browser before I used it. I've avoided everything google for over a decade.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    I'll give you 3 more AIs please don't go.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago*

    Throw an image of Michael Scott on the NOOOO button and this may actually sell me

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I read this in a glados voice And it makes it sooo much better.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    No disassemble chat gpt edge alive!

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Pro-tip from a novice: download the chrome installer on another machine and put it in a USB drive, that way you can pretend that edge never existed.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Ah yes. The Michael Scott method.

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