Current-era Microsoft continuing to push the boundaries of consent.
Microsoft Edge is a good browser but for some reason Microsoft keeps trying to shove it down everyone’s throat and make it more difficult to use rivals like Chrome or Firefox. Microsoft has now started notifying IT admins that it will force Outlook and Teams to ignore the default web browser on Windows and open links in Microsoft Edge instead.
In no sense is Edge is a good browser. It is built for ads and tracking, and makes surfing the web inherently unpleasant.
The only good thing about Edge is that it can play x265/hevc natively… I use Firefox for everything, but when watching x265 I have to use edge, unless I want to transcode.
Idk, performance wise is as good as chrome, and chrome is the standard. I use brave with extra privacy plugins, but saying that edge is a bad browser because of the tracking is weird when so is chrome and virtually everyone uses it.
You can install ublock origin and any other chromium based addons.
Performance wise, Chrome is dogshit anymore. A decade ago it was great. I returned to Firefox a couple years ago and haven’t looked back.
Isn’t ublock origin getting blocked on chromium soon? I switched back to Firefox a few months back to avoid that.
I also switched from saving passwords in the browser to Bitwarden so that I wouldn’t be tied to any single browser (or OS) and that has been great.
The creator of uBlock origin has been releasing uBO Lite separately to prepare for Google’s fuckery. You can read about it here: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/platform/mv3/description/en.md
That’s good to know. It seems like almost all browsers are chromium based right now so having an option of real ad blocking is great.
I am amazed that anyone can browse the web or watch YouTube without ad blocking.
Right? It’s so good to know there are still other reasonably people out there.
Whenever I see someone (nearly anyone) else’s phone or pc being absolutely inundated with ads I can’t help but wonder if they’re allright in the head. There are so many mobile games that I never knew were ad-ridden until I saw them on someone else’s screen … eg. Wordfeud, there’s apparently a video ad playing each time you submit a word. Wtaf…
The bitwarden thing I agree with, but I got fed up with Firefox not working correctly for some webpages I work with because let’s be real, it has such a low user base that web devs don’t optimizer for it anymore and some even deploy Firefox breaking changes because the is analytics show that it doesn’t even matter.
If the adblocker stops working correctly though? It’s FF time again baby.
Ah, you’re probably right. I mostly hate Edge because I never chose it, downloaded it, or installed it, and of course it can’t be deleted. It triggers all my “intruder alerts”.
I have used it some at work, and hate it, but that’s mostly because work wouldn’t let me install adblockers.
Heh, I actually really like it for work. With a adblocker of course, I’m scared of your workplace.
Since its a Microsoft product, and any consulting firm wotlrth their salt works with Microsoft, it’s actually really nice to open any link in teamdls and for everything to automatically log into the corporate account through the SSO. I’d about trackers at work, the while pc might be monitored for all I care.
At home that’s a whole different thing though, brave with extra privacy stuff because I got tired of some pages not working in Firefox anymore.
I dislike almost every Microsoft product, and always prefer the alternatives, but que sera sera. :) I don’t doubt that it works.
We’re required to use Microsoft Teams at my office, and oy, what an endless annoyance. If you’re in an MS environment all day, can you tell me how to make Teams understand that I’ve read something? All day every day, any time there’s a message in Teams, I spend five seconds reading it, then ten seconds trying to get Teams to stop marking it “unread.”
Agreed about Firefox, except I love it so much I haven’t given up on it. I just can’t. Been using Firefox since 1957. When a site doesn’t work, I jump to Chrome and it’s almost invariably OK. Only a slight hassle, plus that I hate Chrome too.
My trick with teams is to go to the notifications tab (the top one), and to click anything popping up there. Reactions are weird though, sometimes people’s reactions don’t show up there and I need to go to the chat, to the message they reacted, yeah these are annoying. Most of the time doing a swipe through the notifications tab is enough though.