At what point do we stop caling it late stage capitalism and start calling it post capitalism? This is going beyond a captive market, at this point they're outright making products no one wants and forcing it on us anyway by removing the alternatives. If late stage capitalism was the offer of shit or nothing this is escalating to just shoving a tube down our throats.
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Im curious how many lemmy users have edge as their default browser.
I haven't used a web browser made by Microsoft in 20 years, since I leaned how to create a web page. I saw how Microsoft was trying to take over the web by leveraging their monopoly to enforce their non-standards compliant crap.
I even took an A- over an A+ on that project because I refused to code a version of the site that would work better under IE. I just put a disclaimer at the bottom of the page saying that it was 100% standards compliant and if anyone experienced an issue viewing the page they should consider a upgrading their web browser.
I understand the Edge is supposed to be better than IE and more standards compliant or whatever, but given their history coupled with their anti-privacy practices, it makes any browser made by Microsoft a non starter for me.
Edge? Is that the app I used to install LibreWolf?
I don't think I'll ever consensually use Windows ever again.
I do quite bit of windows installs. I usually use edge once, to either set up chocolate or use ninite, and download sane stuff. Then I hide edge as much as possible.
winget install Mozilla.Firefox
No need to use edge at all.
My Linux Distro came with Firefox preinstalled, so I never had to use Edge either :)
Get ready for:
clicks hyperlink
Entire page is scraped and sent to copilot LLM to be processed. This causes a 1.5 second delay
Then after you get passed the cookies popup and promo popup, the whole page shifts and gets injected with copilot summarizations right as you were about to click on something else.
Work forces me to use edge, this'll be fun
Then after you get passed the cookies popup and promo popup, the whole page shifts and gets injected with copilot summarizations right as you were about to click on something else.
you forgot ads. It's going to get injected with ads
Work forces me to use edge, this’ll be fun
Those absolute monsters.
Imagine using Edge when other browsers exist.
I use it on my work PC and I have to admit that it's not that bad...
"What is my purpose?" "You download Firefox"
winget install -e --id Mozilla.Firefox
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Yeah, same.
It's not terrible, but it feels like it's slowly becoming worse as they add new garbage. And especially if they start forcing a bunch of AI shit I'm out.
But I think a lot of people brush it off outright without really using it. Or, because it's Lemmy, anything that's not linux = bad.
Actually Edge prior to this was a fine browser. Like a lightweight chrome. It was actually just good enough to not really make you want to install a new browser unless it was your daily driver personal PC.
Renaming it to CoPilot Browser in 3...2...
Windows -> MS copilotOS
Subscription-> MS copilot 365
Chatbot -> MS copilot chat
Office apps mished to one -> MS copilot work 365
Vs code -> Copilot Code
Visual Studio -> copilot studio
Azure -> MS Copilot Azure cloud
EntraID -> copilot Access
ActiveDirectory -> copilot Business manager
Visio -> copilot processes
Github -> copilot repo management (CoRaMa)
Intune -> ms copilot manage
Planner -> copilot task management plan
Teams -> copilot communication manager
Linkedin -> ms management ads copilot
🧐 wonky enough?
It's Copilot all the way down.
or, just copilot
When do they rename Edge to Copilot Explorer. :)
Copilot Firefox Downloader
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How will this one be called? Also Copilot? Slopilot?
Microsoft 365 Copilot Edge Pro Express Home Edition with Teams for Friends and Family 2027.
People will still use it once to download another browser.
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M$ has done more to convince people that AI is bullshit than anyone else and I just want to thank them for their hard work.
"Seriuosly unpopular" and the base for that claim is a reddit post with 300 upvotes. Don't get me wrong, fuck microslop and edge, but this title could not be more sensationalistic.
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I'm really loving this new Microslop name.
Also... looks like someone bought www.microslop.com and redirected to their own site: https://www.philipncohen.com/
Ugh, that sucks. That domain could've been put to good satirical use.
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“Sir, a second slop has hit production”
I hate Microsoft edge with a burning passion, and Microslop tries to force me to use it when I click any link from Outlook
Your tools actively make my job HARDER
It is so obnoxious. Fuck Microsoft, fuck Edge, and fuck Outlook.
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Ironfox, Cromite, Librewolf, Ungoogled Chromium, Orion, so many much better options nowadays.
This made me letting this create 🤭
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Step One: Install literally any other browser
Step Two: Make new browser the default
Step Three: Forget that Edge exists
Peace.
- Repeat step two forever when Microsoft decides there was a problem that can be solved by resetting your default browser.
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How can you fumble a quasi-monopoly on desktop operating systems this hard
By changing from a company that produces a product for consumers to a company that produces stock value for share holders.
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Meh. I disabled it in the registry
Edge or the slop? I'm not really a Windows guy.
Edge. Got tired of Windows defaulting to it every time it opened a Microsoft site.
I wish Bill Gates would publicly trip and fall on banana peels like Bezos does.
There was almost no reason to use Edge to begin with not much changes here.
If it gets too bad, I suppose everyone still forced to use SlopilotOS for whatever reason will have to use Powershell to download Firefox. That is, until the SlopilotShell rebrand comes along.
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