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1. You are using a browser you didn't buy. 2. Microsoft is targeting the mass consumers who are price driven. 3. It is creepy they are monitoring your traffic
by literallyaduck 5y ago
1. You are using a browser you didn't buy.
2. Microsoft is targeting the mass consumers who are price driven.
3. It is creepy they are monitoring your traffic and making suggestions.
4. Edge is standing on the shoulders of the chrome giants.
5. Screw Edge.
- xdrosenheim 5y agoEdge comes with a paid OS, right? So in a sense, you did buy it.
- craftinator 5y agoAnd because it's from Microsoft, you're going to keep paying for it, over and over again! Windows update? That's gonna cost you an hour. Update got botched? 2 hours, and all of your browser settings. Registry corrupted?!? 3 hours for backup and reinstall! Can't figure out how to change a setting, because the option used to be there, then disappeared in the last update? 1 hour searching SO, 1 hour crying.
- midasuni 5y agoI don’t know if that’s still the case as I haven’t used windows for 20 years, certainly sounds like windows 98. However it’s your choice in this day and age to use windows.
- craftinator 5y agoI don't use it, as I don't like having a monkey on my back. I had the unfortunate experience of having to install it today after losing a long battle to get Fusion 360 running smoothly on Linux. I can say first hand that Windows has become so much more mediocre than I remember; everything about it screams "we cater to the average and mundane".
- CamperBob2 5y agoMany Windows 10 users didn't pay for it. It was shoved down their throats against their will as an "important security update" to Windows 7 or Windows 8.
- vitorgrs 5y agoYou can install on Linux and macOS.
- falcolas 5y agoI'm not aware of a browser I can buy. To be even more specific - a browser that I can buy and get a guarantee that they will not turn me into a product later, when they're offered lots of money to do so.