Comment on Microsoft now thirstily injects a poll when you download Google Chrome

Technoguyfication@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Routhinator@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t want to use edge, but I do have to admit between Chrome and Edge, Edge has become the less evil. It respects the search and ad tracking opt out settings on your account, and doesn’t disable or cripple ad blockers. The “strict” account wide setting on Edge is so strict that sites will pop up asking you disable ad blockers even if you don’t have one.

  This VS the current state of Chrome which undermines ad blocking, and forces you to opt out of ad tracking on every install of Chrome across all devices… Oh… But they’re going to enable ip masquing now… Because they don’t need your ip with all the identifiers they are injecting into your browser.

  I hate MS… But the don’t be evil company has done a 180 in a rapid fashion over the last couple of years and sadly… MS is now the lesser of two evils.

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  • Spaghetti_Hitchens@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That a Microsoft product is the lesser of two evils is very damning for Google

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    • Veraxus@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And then there is Firefox, which isn’t evil at all. Lets not settle for any level of evil.

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    • Routhinator@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      100%, it was a surprising and depressing realization when the recent updates forced me to take a good look at both ecosystems from the privacy, control and settings standpoints.

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  • cybersandwich@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If I was choosing between chrome and edge, I’d choose edge.

    But I use Firefox like all nerds should.

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    • Routhinator@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Exactly

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  • yamanii@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yep, I mainly use firefox but when I do need a chromium flavor, I would sooner go to edge than chrome itself.

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• misanthropy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Literally the reason I don’t use it is how hard they push it. It’s actually a great browser if you work in an office 365 environment

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