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Why people use chrome is beyond me. Interacting with the internet through an advertising giant is just a huge nope.
by Hippocrates 4y ago
Why people use chrome is beyond me. Interacting with the internet through an advertising giant is just a huge nope.
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- SwiftyBug 4y agoIt's just too convenient. You login to the Gmail website and before you even realize all your bookmarks and saved logins are instantly available. Last week I formatted my wife's PC and reinstalled Windows on it. The first thing she asked after I restarted the system was "ok, where's Chrome?". I convinced her to just use Edge, that it wouldn't make a huge difference. No complaints until now. But people just learned during the last 14 years that Chrome is the best, fastest browser, it's just where they access the internet from. They don't really think much about it. Want to do a search or access Facebook? Use Chrome.
- dataflow 4y agoAre you sure Edge is better? Doesn't Edge add a lot of its own unique, er, "contributions" to the browser experience, so to speak? Why not Firefox or Ungoogled Chromium or something else like those?
- CatWChainsaw 4y agoEdge's contribution is persistent nagging to use Bing and Outlook instead of Google and Gmail. The one thing I keep a Chrome browser for is printing, I prefer it over Firefox's.
- dataflow 4y agoIf that's all that nags you, you're either lucky or unaware of the other stuff. For me there are at least the "Save time and money with Shopping in Microsoft Edge" data collection stuff, the "Get notified when creators you follow post new content", the "Show suggestions to follow creators in Microsoft Edge", the annoying sidebar, etc.
- CatWChainsaw 4y agoProbably a combination. I get an annoying song and dance the first time I open Edge after an update, but I don't use Edge on the regular. Sometimes if I'm trying to buy something Edge will tell me that a site has coupons, but I don't get interruptions that often.
- dataflow 4y agoI mean if your problem with Chrome is data collection, then interruptions are kind of beside the point right? You should be looking into what data Edge collects, including the shopping stuff I mentioned. I'd go check out all the settings pages if I were you, and make sure these options are off (and any others I neglected to list). OTOH if you're just using Edge over Chrome due to other reasons then I guess none of this is relevant.
- CatWChainsaw 4y agoI do that with any browser I use whenever it updates.
- SwiftyBug 4y agoI don't think it's that much better, but I felt like if I tried suggesting Firefox she would be very hesitant. I just wanted to avoid her to mindlessly be sucked into Chrome.