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> Edge teams What happened with Edge? I've been out of the loop with MS stuff for years, and last I heard you had to select a browser in the EU or something, b
by julianlam 6y ago
> Edge teams
What happened with Edge? I've been out of the loop with MS stuff for years, and last I heard you had to select a browser in the EU or something, but was this also made mandatory worldwide?
I'd imagine still being bundled with Windows means their usage is not insignificant...
- Nextgrid 6y agoEdge is now just a rebranded Chromium, and Microsoft's approach with Windows 10 suggests they are betting big on advertising and the "attention economy" thus very unlikely to push towards privacy protection.
- userbinator 6y agoThey are also adopting the "user herding" trend --- taking away choices and control, bludgeoning the userbase into docile and obedient consumers that they can monetise or do whatever else they want to. Take a look at the settings for IE, which actually improved with each new version, and you can clearly see which side MS used to be on. Then compare it with the useless dumbed-down "modern" UI of even pre-Chromium Edge.
- bleachedsleet 6y agoEdge is now a Chromium fork
- julianlam 6y agoAh, thank you. I must've missed this rather large change...
- aeontech 6y agoI think the parent is referring to the fact that MS abandoned their browser engine and Edge is now running on Chromium as of Jan 2020.
- ocdtrekkie 6y agoEdge is now a Chromium fork, and is headed by an ex-Googler who cheerfully me-toos every Google web agenda. It's sole purpose is to be a Chrome browser that connects to Microsoft accounts and hence can integrate with Microsoft's enterprise tools. Despite enterprise teams already finding Chrome's six week release cycle tedious, Microsoft immediately followed Chrome to announcing their four week cycle in the last week, and Edge also failed to protect ad blocking by rejecting the Manifest V3 changes for browser extensions designed to cripple ad blockers. Basically, at any opportunity Microsoft has had to differentiate itself, it has decided to just do what Google does.
- dialtone 6y agoOne day ycombinator will be full of people that talk after informing themselves, but that day is not today. The Chromium Edge doesn’t support 3rd party cookies already and thus isn’t really subject to targeted ads like Safari or Firefox. Now please continue with your reasoning.
- HDMI_Cable 6y agoI’m not an expert on this, but aren’t there other ways to track users (like fingerprinting based on extensions)?
- Jcowell 6y agoYes but it doesn’t really matter. If you’re using edge chromium , you’re probably using it on the platform it runs best on anyway, that already would probably do it all anyway.
- BoorishBears 6y agoI feel like someone just gave you a laundry list of problems, and you lifted a sock off the pile and acted like you had finished the lot...
- hyperrail 6y agoThe Edge team - first engineering alone, now both eng. and product - has been led for 3 years by Rajesh Sundaram, a Microsoft lifer who has never worked for Google. [1] And Chromium-based Edge has tracking prevention through filter lists, while Chrome does not. [2] Microsoft is no one's privacy hero these days, I will concede that. But some of these specific claims are just wrong. [1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajeshsu https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajeshsu [2] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/learn-about-tracking-prevention-in-microsoft-edge-5ac125e8-9b90-8d59-fa2c-7f2e9a44d869 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/learn-abo...