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> added trust of Microsoft What trust is left? Trust that they'll sell your data to loan companies? https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-edge-buy-now-pay-l

> added trust of Microsoft What trust is left? Trust that they'll sell your data to loan companies? https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-edge-buy-now-pay-later/ https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-edge-buy-now-pay-la...

grouchomarx 4y ago
Trust and MS don't belong in the same sentence
- kdtsh 4y ago
  Unless the sentence starts with ‘Don’t.’
  - christophilus 4y ago
    Or Anti.
starbugs 4y ago
Trust and Microsoft in the same sentence is really approaching peak irony. Especially in this context.
- hinkley 4y ago
  Lately there’s been a lot of astroturfing about how Microsoft has turned over a new leaf. Guess than leaf was poison ivy. The scorpion stung the frog. Quelle surprise.
  - soundnote 4y ago
    In some ways they really have: They're a cloud oriented, device agnostic platform company that's actually built a pretty nice and smooth ecosystem a la Apple. Others, well. See article. AI and the ad department want your data.
  - Dylan16807 4y ago
    This isn't really new, and it isn't anywhere near that level. They do 20 other things that are worse.
- Dylan16807 4y ago
  This context is 'versus google' so I don't know, that's a very low bar.
  - starbugs 4y ago
    I thought of "the context" as "we'd like to inject some cheesy ad into the website you are visiting and we are so desperate that we put an outright lie (trust) into it while performing one of the most untrustworthy actions that anyone could think of." I didn't see Google doing something like this, but I am afraid it won't be long until they copy it.
kevincox 4y ago
Trust that you won't get fired for choosing Microsoft.
- midoridensha 4y ago
  In a lot of environments, this hasn't been true for a long time.
chias 4y ago
Also, trust isn't additive in this way: now you have to trust Google AND Microsoft, which is a weaker property than just trusting Google. (unless of course they're alleging that Microsot has gone and reworked the browser to such a degree that you no longer have to trust Google. Which is obviously nonsense)
hinkley 4y ago
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- dang 4y ago
  You can't break the site guidelines like this, regardless of how right you are or feel you are. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful. You may not owe Microsoft better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

grouchomarx 4y ago

Trust and MS don't belong in the same sentence

kdtsh 4y ago
Unless the sentence starts with ‘Don’t.’
- christophilus 4y ago
  Or Anti.

starbugs 4y ago

Trust and Microsoft in the same sentence is really approaching peak irony. Especially in this context.

hinkley 4y ago
Lately there’s been a lot of astroturfing about how Microsoft has turned over a new leaf. Guess than leaf was poison ivy. The scorpion stung the frog. Quelle surprise.
- soundnote 4y ago
  In some ways they really have: They're a cloud oriented, device agnostic platform company that's actually built a pretty nice and smooth ecosystem a la Apple. Others, well. See article. AI and the ad department want your data.
- Dylan16807 4y ago
  This isn't really new, and it isn't anywhere near that level. They do 20 other things that are worse.
Dylan16807 4y ago
This context is 'versus google' so I don't know, that's a very low bar.
- starbugs 4y ago
  I thought of "the context" as "we'd like to inject some cheesy ad into the website you are visiting and we are so desperate that we put an outright lie (trust) into it while performing one of the most untrustworthy actions that anyone could think of." I didn't see Google doing something like this, but I am afraid it won't be long until they copy it.

kevincox 4y ago

Trust that you won't get fired for choosing Microsoft.

midoridensha 4y ago
In a lot of environments, this hasn't been true for a long time.

chias 4y ago

Also, trust isn't additive in this way: now you have to trust Google AND Microsoft, which is a weaker property than just trusting Google. (unless of course they're alleging that Microsot has gone and reworked the browser to such a degree that you no longer have to trust Google. Which is obviously nonsense)

hinkley 4y ago

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dang 4y ago
You can't break the site guidelines like this, regardless of how right you are or feel you are. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful. You may not owe Microsoft better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.