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this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2023
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"You can turn off X" is not a good enough excuse.
Once upon a time, I used to daily Edge when it was a pretty decent browser. But once it was handed over to the Bing team who started jerry-rigging garbage into it that was it for me. You could also "turn a lot of it off", but that doesn't help when new less-than-ideal features are introduced or setting it up on a new PC.
The default homepage on Edge alone is enough to make me never use Edge willingly.
I don’t know what that Bing/MSN abomination is but it’s reprehensible. It’s the most clickbait tabloid garbage I’ve ever seen. The fact that a company that makes hand over fist on enterprise is willing to sully their new browser with that fucking page makes me lose so much faith in humanity.
I know it’s an easily changed setting but there’s millions and millions of people that won’t change it at home or at work being exposed to that garbage.
I have to use Edge at work, and turned off all the BS. But Microsoft keeps coming up with new BS that they enable by default so every so often I have to waste time figuring out how to turn it off.
Actually know a few ex-Edge developers personally and it kills them seeing what Edge has now become. Opening it for the first time is just a tragic mess. It peaked around the Linux release and then slowly went downhill from there 😔
Shame.
Brave Rewards are turned off by default.
@mercan @ducky but the advertisements are not (new tab page)
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