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The real travisty here is The Verge trying to install Chrome instead of Firefox

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The Verge is the IGN of the techblogs.

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-55 points

You spelled Opera GX wrong

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Ah yes, the web browser that pays YouTubers to shill it. Surely a company with that marketing strategy must have an excellent product

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People also forget about the loan sharking they did in Africa to take advantage of the most desperate

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Wow you guys really can’t take a joke huh

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72 points

Too bad they don’t have an option for “I just don’t want to use Edge”. Especially with how hard Microsoft is pushing it, that just makes me want to use it less.

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With it being a free product, it must be very valuable for them to have you use it.

Just remember that when using edge or chrome.

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3 points

This

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

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15 points

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

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5 points

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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9 points

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

But I use Firefox like all nerds should.

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2 points

Exactly

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2 points

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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5 points

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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Microsoft sounding like an overly attached partner who cannot accept that the relationship is already over

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31 points

Where’s the option for: “I don’t want to use edge because it shoves polls in my face”

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6 points

Some people pay extra for that sort of thing.

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Bravo

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25 points

They should add a pop-up with a ‘Why not Firefox?’ question.

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7 points

Only if it also comes with a picture of Zoidberg.

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3 points

Yeah, that seems about right, after all everything will evolve into grab, foxes included.

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