The Edge browser "experience" was the final straw that pushed me over to MacOS. The whole in-your-face pushy behaviour in Edge is awful. I very often have to install software on new Windows servers and every time when I have to open the browser I have to go through the deshittifaction steps for the default home page and the whole "can I have all your data" wizard. Also Edge tend to "forget" privacy settings with new updates and re-enable many privacy invasive features like Page Preload, Bing etc. And you also have this Copilot sh*t and the whole sidebar with Coupons!?!?
It's also creeping over to the Start Menu and the Taskbar.
Forcing Edge to load a specific URL in a specific browser
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#12It would be amusing to be able to do:
Destroy me
Re: Forcing Edge to load a specific URL in a specific browser
#13The Edge browser "experience" was the final straw that pushed me over to MacOS. The whole in-your-face pushy behaviour in Edge is awful. I very often have to install software on new Windows servers and every time when I have to open the browser I have to go through the deshittifaction steps for the default home page and the whole "can I have all your data" wizard. Also Edge tend to "forget" privacy settings with new…
I really wish the FTC would step in and do something
Re: Forcing Edge to load a specific URL in a specific browser
#14It would be amusing to be able to do: Destroy me
--no-preserve-root
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#16i'm waiting to hit this "edge case". i had to
I've hit this case. We have an app that uses ActiveX Controls. I use this to force Edge to open specific links away from my app.
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Spam on HN???
Can someone report this?
Re: Forcing Edge to load a specific URL in a specific browser
#19The Edge browser "experience" was the final straw that pushed me over to MacOS. The whole in-your-face pushy behaviour in Edge is awful. I very often have to install software on new Windows servers and every time when I have to open the browser I have to go through the deshittifaction steps for the default home page and the whole "can I have all your data" wizard. Also Edge tend to "forget" privacy settings with new…
I really wish the FTC would step in and do something
It's really weird that there's a giant, Microsoft-shape gap in the pattern of all the recent FTC enforcement actions.