Microsoft now thirstily injects a poll when you download Google Chrome

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Microsoft now thirstily injects a poll when you download Google Chrome
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Too bad they donā€™t have an option for ā€œI just donā€™t want to use Edgeā€. Especially with how hard Microsoft is pushing it, that just makes me want to use it less.

With it being a free product, it must be very valuable for them to have you use it.

Just remember that when using edge or chrome.

I don't want to use edge, but I do have to admit between Chrome and Edge, Edge has become the less evil. It respects the search and ad tracking opt out settings on your account, and doesn't disable or cripple ad blockers. The "strict" account wide setting on Edge is so strict that sites will pop up asking you disable ad blockers even if you don't have one.

This VS the current state of Chrome which undermines ad blocking, and forces you to opt out of ad tracking on every install of Chrome across all devices... Oh.. But they're going to enable ip masquing now.. Because they don't need your ip with all the identifiers they are injecting into your browser.

I hate MS... But the don't be evil company has done a 180 in a rapid fashion over the last couple of years and sadly.. MS is now the lesser of two evils.

That a Microsoft product is the lesser of two evils is very damning for Google

And then there is Firefox, which isnā€™t evil at all. Lets not settle for any level of evil.

100%, it was a surprising and depressing realization when the recent updates forced me to take a good look at both ecosystems from the privacy, control and settings standpoints.

Yep, I mainly use firefox but when I do need a chromium flavor, I would sooner go to edge than chrome itself.

Literally the reason I don't use it is how hard they push it. It's actually a great browser if you work in an office 365 environment