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Shrug. Windows 10 keeps nudging me to use Edge.
by jeffk_teh_haxor 7y ago
Shrug. Windows 10 keeps nudging me to use Edge.
- Spivak 7y agoHa! Nudging is an understatement. * If you type Chrome into Bing you'll get a full page ad urging you not to switch. * If you try to switch to use Chrome as your default browser it will ask you if you're really sure and you have to click the tiny text to actually switch. * Edge and Windows 10 will send you notifications about Edge being the recommended browser and it's speed/security/whatever. * If you install Adobe Reader and check "set as my default PDF reader" Windows 10 will send you a notification saying that "there's something wrong with your default reader app" and set it back to Edge. * In the start menu Edge gets special treatment by having flavor text that says it's the Microsoft recommended browser. * You have to use 3rd pary hacks to get the start menu search to use anything other than Edge & Bing. * Microsoft teated a feature on insider builds which intercepted the installers for Chrome and Firefox and displayed a pop-up asking them to use Edge instead. * Before they got backlash for it, once you switched your default browser to something not Edge Windows would open up your new browser to an ad for Edge.
- Slashbot 7y agoYou'd think they spend more time actually making Edge not shit..