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Wasn’t this supposed to be illegal with that big Netscape case
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You don't understand. It's okay now because the M$FT of today is woke and employees state their pronouns.
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what's illegal? promoting their browser on their operating system?
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It was big deal because it was seen as not allowing choice by shipping with IE only or something like that. Was part of the antitrust case of the time.
Shit neighbor I’m not even a computer kid and I know about this story
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IIRC they made some IE dlls super important so if you removed IE the entire OS would break
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I was there. The case was that MS made IE an "integral part" of their OS and other browsers (which one would BUY) were at a disadvantage, because IE was there from the start AND couldn't be removed completely. It also hinged on the fact that MS was quasi a monopoly, Apple and smartphones in general weren't a thing.
Now with Apple being biggest on the planet MS has stopped caring.
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fricking cortana is the same but it's so shit no one cares enough I guess
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Yeah Cortana is there, but ignored/disabled easily enough. Even with re-enabling, no-one sane uses Cortana or Bing (except for rewards), everyone is using Apple or Google. MS fricked up, now they're chained to PCs and Office, while the money is in mobile phones and apps. In my hindsight: Should've made good Nokias (the longevity brand) combined with Android app store plus their own.
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I think they got rid of her even more in Win11
Follower of Christ Tech lover, IT Admin, heckin pupper lover and occasionally troll. I hold back feelings or opinions, right or wrong because I dislike conflict.
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Holding gigantic corporations accountable is racist.
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But constantly replacing it/restoring it each update is not!
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daily reminder that the only time microsoft got any pushback against this was in the EU we should get the commission to b-word slap them again for this shit
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I ignored these prompts before but if they added neo-nazi wave marseys i would use edge
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They're adding AI to Edge but I'm only gonna use it if it's a racist pathological liar--real AI--the moralistic answers I see from Bing genuinely make me and are basically the opposite of why 100 million users got into Chat GPT to see what it could do.
Basically: they bought the tech, but Microsoft will frick this up.
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But Bing AI is genuinely r-slurred.
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Follower of Christ Tech lover, IT Admin, heckin pupper lover and occasionally troll. I hold back feelings or opinions, right or wrong because I dislike conflict.
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Dead giveaway
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I unironically use Edge as my main browser.
Never using Bing thoughever.
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Neighbor use brave
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How do you get rid of all those annoying pop up ads for sketchy crypto tho?
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Using brave for 2 years never saw a pop up ad
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I get them all the time but only in the mobile version. If you start brave with no open site it has a full page ad, other times when you start it a pop up comes up covering the top 1/3 of the screen like a notification.
Desktop version doesn’t have that shit but mobile does. There’s no consistency to it they just come up whenever.
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Never seen it. Maybe try this
https://www.makeuseof.com/brave-disable-crypto-features/
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Only took like 20 useless comments from a dozen different users before someone helpful shows up.
Thanks king.
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You can turn those ads on mobile off. Tap the three dots in the bottom right corner and open settings. Go down to where it says new tab settings and change the image type to default instead of sponsored.
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you have to turn those on
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I didn’t turn on shit I want to turn them off. Tell me how.
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No.
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None of you kids will help a poor old boomer out?
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Did you even look at the settings?
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No where do I find those?
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Options, Brave Rewards, toggle off brave private ads
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Where do I find “Options”?
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new tab, gear in the bottom right
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Ignore them.
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I can’t tho. I’ve paid into like 10 crypto currencies already because that’s how suggestible I am.
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Would you like to hear about my brilliant new crypto that will END the dollar?
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OH BOY DO I!
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Without all the Microsoft telemetry?
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But why?
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@BraveShill
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but you get free stuff for using bing!
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Takes forever now though. I used to get a $50 Xbox card maybe twice a year if not 3x, and now with the same user habits I haven't gotten up to that in well over a year now.
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Good thing I don't have Xbox then
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it's kind of a pain in the butt tho. I used to try to keep up with the daily rewards but unless you make $10 an hour it's not worth your time
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bing is an absolutely terrible search engine. it's sometimes incredibly hard to find what you want.
but i keep using it as my default because i get free xbox games and free books from amazon.
i never go out of my way to get any points, just use it in my regular daily searches.
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Google getting there
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Unironically trying to daily Edge on my main PC with this reinstall. So far it's working just fine, imported my passwords without issue.
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Now Msft has all your passwords good job
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compared to google, mozilla, or some other dubious company?
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How about not giving your passwords to anyone lmao
The absolute state of dramatards
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writes down password on giant sticky note
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Just use your memory
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But unironically. Put your passwords in a notebook, and put it in a safe.
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Soran
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Its actually a good browser now and its slightly faster than chrome. Shame it comes with microsoft bloat though.
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Nice post, bro! I posted it to twitter.
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Someone here like 6 months ago told me to switch to edge and it's definitely the best browser rn
Secured my spot as a top 100 most memorable rdrama poster
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