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Microsoft accused of malware-like tactics, again, in attempt to push users onto Bing
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this post was submitted on 31 Aug 2023
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There's an alternate timeline in which I actually give Bing and Edge a chance because Microsoft's not flinging their feces at their users constantly the way they are now
It’s wild because Bing is generally quite good now, but I switched away from it recently because it kept trying to advertise edge…
Meanwhile edge tries to advertise “pay later” schemes and really gets in your face about bing…
So to be honest, I did use Bing for a good while, mostly for the rewards, and it wasn't bad, but at some point I was using a Canadian IP with a VPN, and Microsoft stubbornly switched everything to Canadian currency and would no longer let me redeem my rewards with US dollars or within the US lol. Honestly, it's one thing that nudged me to start thinking more about using a search engine that's not as problematic as Google or Bing.
Yeah I’ve had similar experiences with Microsoft switching my currency out of nowhere and it was weird…
Recently been using Brave Search but in general I feel like there just aren’t any good search engines anymore?
It was a really good time when the new chromium edge just came out and was a lean, quick and bs-free browser with a few power user features.
Until about maybe six months ago, Edge was great (please ignore the massive amount of data it sends to MS) as a browser. The user experience was top notch.
Some product owner with shit for brains was hired and started cramming Bing and AI nonsense into every corner.
MS needs to ease up, fast.
Not to mention pay later credit card cr@#.
The sad thing is that Edge is actually decent, and Bing is also not terrible... E.g. as an user there is absolutely no reason to use Chrome instead, but Microsoft managed to make it seem so annoying with shit like this.
Edge was decent in beta and upon release. I find now though they have slowly been adding in their own features and now it's a browser packed with Microsoft's products.
And also it tracks you, same as Chrome.
Normies barely know what that means, and don't care.
What do you mean instead? Edge is a Chromium rebrand
Installing Chrome... since Edge is already there. If anything they would have to install Firefox to make a difference.
Chrome is not the same thing as Chromium. It's not a "rebrand", it's a fork.
It's built on chromium.
I find bing to be slightly less shit than google these days.
I've actually found Bing to be way better than Google for a while now. It's not even close, idk what Google did to their search engine but it's pretty frustrating. It's all ads and irrelevant links.
I've switched entirely to Startpage and SearXNG instances, and I'm having a much better time
I did that once. I'm Firefox and DuckDuckGo now. Love it. The difference in being served the internet and surfing the internet. Ha. Haven't heard that term in a long time.