I recently discovered that you can get Microsoft Edge for Linux (🤢🤮) and am curious… does anyone here use Edge for Linux, or have you ever? What was your reasoning for using it?

EDIT: Well, you all have provided some interesting perspectives I hadn’t ever considered. Including one which means I’ll have to install Edge, so… thanks, I guess. 😂

      • 30p87@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        And Edge is chromium + Microsoft Bloat.

        One could argue using it on Windows means only allowing M$ to spy on you, theoretically. Though I would not be surprised if M$ uses a custom version of Chromium including Google trackers, so the opposite of degoogled chromium.

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      1 year ago

      When it initially came out it actually seemed pretty great. I’m as anti-Microsoft as they come but I had to check it out.

      But yeah, these days it’s pure trash. It was fun while it lasted.

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        1 year ago

        The core browser is still good, but they keep changing and adding annoying things and doing questionable privacy things like sending images to their servers “for enhancement”. For a while they removed the ability to remove sync data, but I think it may have been added back again after backlash.