• Nytefyre@piefed.social
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    18 hours ago

    And now people absolutely distrust and detest Chrome, Firefox is having an identity crisis on its hands, Edge is pretty much dead.

    Browsers have gotten interestingly bad.

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      11 hours ago

      And now people absolutely distrust and detest Chrome

      What “people” are you referring to? Because Chrome is the most popular browser, by a landslide.

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      17 hours ago

      Edge is pretty much dead.

      I honestly don’t know why. If you are a Windows user and don’t care about privacy, you may just as well stick with Edge. As a Chromium web browser by a megacorp, it’s in no way worse than Chrome.

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            13 hours ago

            It does, and there’s nothing you can do about it either, other than, obviously, switching to an alternative web browser.

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                51 minutes ago

                Helium should be fine. They’re, to my understanding, a fork of ungoogled-chromium, and they seem to proxy all calls to Google for you. It shold be a safe enough web browser for ‘regular’ people who care about their privacy.

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      17 hours ago

      I mean, edge is a viable option for enterprise. Works with gpos, etc. So easy to roll out and lockdown there.

      I still think it’s garbage like every chromium browser but that’s its big sell.

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    17 hours ago

    He also laughed at the iPhone, then years later, the windows phone devices bit the big one. He wasn’t very prescient, it seems.

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    17 hours ago

    Edge is just Chrome with a Microslop skin. They went from crushing Netscape so hard it got open sourced (mostly via monopoly shenanigans) to copying Google’s homework. And their attempts at mobile anything has been failure (Windows CE) after failure (Windows Phone) after failure (Windows for ARM).

    If it weren’t for Office and companies’ undying love of Active Directory and Exchange, Microslop would be a memory and little more.

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      18 hours ago

      Steve Balmer is a pill.

      What is it with Steves in technology being just the worst (Woz is Woz, not Steve).

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    17 hours ago

    Poor Google, demoralised when another monopoly says it’s not going to break into it’s monopoly.

    But fortunately Google used it’s search monopoly to aggressively push Chrome, and now all that data that Microsoft used to scrape, Google now does.

    Happy ending for the monopoly.

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    16 hours ago

    Lol it only took 17 years to prove hom wrong.

    Loooooooooooooooollll