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Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge (www.neowin.net)
submitted 4 weeks ago by Blaze@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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[–] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 19 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)

Who the fuck even uses Edge?

[–] protonslive@lemm.ee 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Think about all offices, businesses and personal computers of people who don't deeply know about computers

[–] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 2 points 4 weeks ago

I was kinda more referencing people on Lemmy. I know there are a lot of people that are clueless. I have several users that use Edge and it's a constant battle.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

For some reason, the asshats in my company are pushing for it as default

[–] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 3 points 4 weeks ago

As a sysadmin in a Microsoft shop, it has a lot of management features that I like. Users generally love Chrome and hate Firefox (for some reason, I dunno) so Edge was a good compromise while it still supported ublock.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 weeks ago

as far as a chromium skin goes, it's far better than chrome - especially with tab grouping, vertical tabs, and profile link handling.

[–] Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

The only reason I even have it installed is to test websites (developer).

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Normies too lazy to install something different.

[–] Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Normies don't use adblockers though. So this doesn't change a thing, lol.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 weeks ago

Hence why normies use Edge, they didn't change a thing.