tech savvy ppl and non-techy ppl both dont like Edge, Bing and copilot
Bing is a better search engine than Google, but both are pale imitations of their former selves. It’s amazing how bad search has gotten in the last ~5 years
Honestly, the preinstalled spyware aside, Edge is a pretty good browser. It’s, like, Chrome but better
This is like saying “patient is pretty healthy, except their health is failing”
Edge is a pretty good browser.
Setting aside my requirements to minimize spying and avoiding big tech. I agree.
But the dick is at least lubed!
Chrome is fucking us all no matter what form it happens to be taking at the time.
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I’m using Edge and Bing right now, on Windows 11
clearly, either ragebait or Microsoft rewards.
ew
I love edge…
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I hate Bing but right now I am sour on anything Google.
Not true in my experience, I would say the majority of windows users I see these days use edge and bing. Most don’t use copilot though
Bing used to be better than Google for a time but it has gotten worse too to the point where I use Google again. Edge is, IMO, unfairly maligned. It’s a perfectly good browser, although Microsoft begging me to use it is quite annoying.
You forgot the panel where the tech savvy people wash their hands afterwards
Google is fucking unusable as a search engine now. Bing is literally better now if you block the AI part.
Was searching for something very simple. Google literally wouldn’t find it. Changed the search terms multiple times.
Tried bing and it literally popped up as the first result with the same first search I tried on Google.
This isn’t a one time thing either. Give me an alternate to Bing. But Google is literally hot garbage now.
In my experience non-techy people just don’t know what Edge and Bing are.
Lol when our CFO called it “the wave browser”
Which “non-techy people” are we talking about here?
Nowadays some people only use smartphones or maybe tablets, and they might not know that. But most non-techy desktop users still use Windows and they certainly ought to know the default browser (and its search engine) on their OS, I would think.
I’m talking about people on Windows desktops. They don’t know what Windows is, they confuse Office with Windows all the time, they go online through the “internet symbol” which is their default browser that they don’t know the name of. Google is their default search engine and they’ve never seen any other search engine.
If Google is their default search engine, they must at least be tech-savvy enough to have changed the search engine in Edge, or installed another browser (probably Chrome).
I love how you guys go “oooh, tech savvy this” and “tech savvy that”, but you consider Chrome to be something fundamentally different than Edge without some extra features.
Buddy, it’s all Chromium. Sure, the telemetry data goes to MS instead of Google, but that’s it, that’s all the difference there is. Ignoring, of course, all the extra stuff MS has added, like vertical tabs, mouse gestures, etc.
“Tech savvy people use the Chromium with Google telemetry instead of Chromium with extra features and MS telemetry!!1”, lol!
I don’t see where I said anything that contradicts anything in your comment.
For many non-techy people it’s probably simply the internet button.
They might know the icon; they probably don’t know its name tho.
And in my experience, non-tech people use the default browser and its default search engine. If they hate it, they certainly don’t show it.
Edge is actually pretty great. Bing…well, the image search is okay.
Don’t knock Bing Videos, either. It’s the best porn search engine in existence.
I’ve heard that! But I’m gay so I’m not sure the shareholders want it to serve me.
I’m pan and trust me it’s not an issue. You can find anything you want there.
I use edge on Mac.
Me too, I tried using Firefox on Mac but for some reason its power consumption is insanely high.
Tech savvy people like Duckduckgo, Duckduckgo uses Bing under the hood
I host my own search engine lol.
Yacy what you did there
Ah, finally someone using the European open Search index?
No lol. SearXNG. But would look up what you mentioned
SearXNG is not a search engine. It is a Frontend for everything from Google to bing.
Ik that. I was talking in terms of a layman.
We also maintain our own crawler (DuckDuckBot) and many indexes to support our results.
DDG uses a whole bunch of stuff, including feeding anonymized results through the bing API, but they’ve been largely driven by their own indexes for several years now after using Bing to bootstrap themselves.
if im using chromium, it’s gonna be vivaldi
Can it set the bookmarks bar to only show up on the new tab page yet?
yeah basically any bookmarks you put in your speed dial older show up on the new tab page
Speed dial is not the same as bookmarks though
Im dumb, whats the w logo?
Waterfox. It started out as a 64-bit build of Firefox for Windows, back when Mozilla didn’t offer that yet. These days, I believe, it just offers a few different defaults…
Ohh
Like librewolf its basically firefox without mozilla bs
And it also has an android versionI didn’t knew librewolf had an android version. Fdroid?
They don’t. On their website they recommend ironfox for android. Haven’t tried it yet myself though (i have hoarded over 100 tabs on my phone so it’s kind of a pain to switch browser).
And with RFP on by default.
