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Edge started as a reffreshing take on a chromium-based browser, then they regressed to absolute early 2000s bloatware-Microsoft. I was an avid user for about 4

Edge started as a reffreshing take on a chromium-based browser, then they regressed to absolute early 2000s bloatware-Microsoft. I was an avid user for about 4 years. Now I avoid it like the plague, except for their awesome “Read Aloud” feature. Can’t recommend Arc browser enough, it’s a browser built with craft and designed to streamline modern workflows.

userbinator 3y ago
No, Edge started as an attempt to make a better browser engine. Then MS gave up and it became another Chrome-clone before acquiring its own brand of user-hostility.
- Tostino 3y ago
  The additional features they added were quite nice though...until it got all the extra telemetry and bloat was added.
- tech234a 3y ago
  The JS engine is open source: https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore
maxerickson 3y ago
The initial version wasn't based on Chromium.
giancarlostoro 3y ago
As soon as whatever team turned Windows into bloat spyware gets a hold of a project at Microsoft all bets are off. Marketing / Telemetry Driven Development is the bane of good software. They took the lesson of screwing up colossally on Windows 8 and decided to spy on everything to make sure they don't make the same mistake, and with every change that they justify by "more people are joining" I'm inching closer to becoming a Mac / Linux absolutist. If .NET wasn't my bread and butter I'd be on Linux permanently.
lapcat 3y ago
Edge has been problematic for a long time: "But the most intrusive phoning-home features were found in the new version of Microsoft Edge and the official Yandex Browser." https://www.zdnet.com/article/brave-deemed-most-private-browser-in-terms-of-phoning-home/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/brave-deemed-most-private-brow...
esafak 3y ago
That's https://arc.net/ https://arc.net/
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jerrygoyal 3y ago
what's the business model of Arc? Don't want to switch if they run out of cash one day.
- esafak 3y ago
  Uncertain: https://arc.net/faq https://arc.net/faq
stjohnswarts 3y ago
first thing it does is force me to sign up for an account? that's a no for me, dawg.

userbinator 3y ago

No, Edge started as an attempt to make a better browser engine. Then MS gave up and it became another Chrome-clone before acquiring its own brand of user-hostility.

Tostino 3y ago
The additional features they added were quite nice though...until it got all the extra telemetry and bloat was added.
tech234a 3y ago
The JS engine is open source: https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore

maxerickson 3y ago

The initial version wasn't based on Chromium.

giancarlostoro 3y ago

As soon as whatever team turned Windows into bloat spyware gets a hold of a project at Microsoft all bets are off. Marketing / Telemetry Driven Development is the bane of good software. They took the lesson of screwing up colossally on Windows 8 and decided to spy on everything to make sure they don't make the same mistake, and with every change that they justify by "more people are joining" I'm inching closer to becoming a Mac / Linux absolutist. If .NET wasn't my bread and butter I'd be on Linux permanently.

lapcat 3y ago

Edge has been problematic for a long time: "But the most intrusive phoning-home features were found in the new version of Microsoft Edge and the official Yandex Browser." https://www.zdnet.com/article/brave-deemed-most-private-browser-in-terms-of-phoning-home/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/brave-deemed-most-private-brow...

esafak 3y ago

That's https://arc.net/ https://arc.net/

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jerrygoyal 3y ago

what's the business model of Arc? Don't want to switch if they run out of cash one day.

esafak 3y ago
Uncertain: https://arc.net/faq https://arc.net/faq

stjohnswarts 3y ago

first thing it does is force me to sign up for an account? that's a no for me, dawg.