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.
I use it on my gaming machine because it’s there and it isn’t chrome. But it keeps harassing me with browser shopping notifications, recommendations that are always about AI, and you have to visit a pasted-in flags page to disable them. It’s shit
Not that I like the current Chrome, but with all this forcing down your throat Edge from Microsoft, I hate Edge 10 times more. I guess Firefox is the only good alternative even if its is not Chromium
Yeah I’ll probably just switch to FF. But I use it so infrequently on there it’s not a priority.
I’ve been using Vivaldi a lot more though. Especially on my phone
Especially because its not Chromium
I quite like Chromium. Maybe is my tinted glass when I just switched from Firefox/Explorer. The fact that your browser would pop up almost instantly instead of taking those 2-3 seconds to start was quite revolutionary (Firefox of course caught up quite soon on that regard, Microsoft had to adopt Chromium to do the same).
But yeah, the current bloatware and resouce gourging are quite bad when looking at it impartially.