Microsoft Edge now shows a security-focused banner on Google Chrome’s download page. It highlights built-in safety features and links to Microsoft’s Online Safety page.

Microsoft is trying a new way to stop users from downloading Google Chrome. If you open the Chrome download page in Microsoft Edge, you may see a new banner at the top. This version looks different from the usual prompts that ask users to stay with Edge.

I’m curious, what if I download Firefox from Edge? 🤔

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    21 days ago

    sure, when Microsoft manages to modify their competitors website it’s “marketing”, but when I do it it’s a crime and I go to prison.

  • Wioum@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    22 days ago

    Just a reminder that you dont need to touch Edge to download a browser on w11.

    With cmd:

    Librewolf: winget install -e --id LibreWolf.LibreWolf

    or

    Firefox: winget install -e --id Mozilla.Firefox

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    2·
    22 days ago

    I country with a working legislative would prevent a market leader from attempting to prevent consumers from exercising their freedom to choose. Oh well.

    • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      21 days ago

      Tech regulation is such a joke that I struggle to take any of it seriously anymore. Google was found monopoly and they didnt issue a punishment because “it was long time ago and now there are AI browsers”. Australia banning teenagers from social media instead of, you know, fixing social media for all people. It’s like punching air yet if you personally break ToS or IP law you are criminally charged.

  • nil@piefed.caEnglish
    2·
    22 days ago

    I had chances to peek into some of my friends’ laptop and was surprised how many of them are using Edge. MS’s strategy looks pretty stupid, but it’s actually working.

    • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      22 days ago

      shrug any major benefits of google branded chromium over microsoft branded chromium are a moot point to me since google curb stomped fully functional adblocking extensions.

    • saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      22 days ago

      I prefer Edge over Chrome, and if I had to choose one, Edge is definitely better. But gladly I don’t have to choose one and never will. Been with Vivaldi for years after switching off FF.

      • aramis87@fedia.io
        0·
        22 days ago

        Could you tell me what you like about Vivaldi over Firefox? Or what advantages it has? Genuinely curious.

        • saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          22 days ago

          There’s just a lot of thought put in for the user. Excellent UI and productivity features, so much customisability. It’s super fast and light. Then there’s built in blockers, VPN, all the usual. To top it all off, it’s made by a small group of Norwegians that hate corporate control and love an open and free internet. They even have their own fediverse instances.

          After I had spent an hour going down the rabbit hole of tweaking every UI element so the browser was now my browser, I was hooked. I still have to use Firefox at work, but I now find it intrusive, sluggish, and crude. I also hate having to restart it for updates lol.

        • Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          22 days ago

          I’m not the person you were replying to, but I enjoy Vivaldi’s tab grouping and window splitting features, specifically. The fact that they haven’t been actively trying to shove AI down my throat is also a plus.

    • deranger@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      0·
      22 days ago

      I see no reason to use chrome over edge. I’m a Firefox guy these days, but if I have to use a chromium browser, I’m using edge.

      • village604@adultswim.fanEnglish
        0·
        22 days ago

        It’s working because Edge isn’t IE and it’s actually a decent browser. It’s just Microsoft chromium instead of Google chromium.

    • Doorknob@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      14 days ago

      Yeah fr. Edge is a better browser than Chrome. I know that’s a bar you can walk over, but…

    • pivot_root@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      22 days ago

      There’s plenty:

      • Not supporting monopolistic practices.
      • User preferences.
      • Diversifying your software so you don’t get trapped in an ecosystem.
      • Not having Copilot stuffed down your throat.
      • User preferences.
      • Making it possible to rip Edge out of Windows for the purpose of debloating.
      • Pycorax@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        0·
        22 days ago
        • Not supporting monopolistic practices.

        The rest of the points are fair but you seriously saying that getting Chrome of all things is not supporting monopolistic practices?

        • pivot_root@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          22 days ago

          Oh, no. I’m saying Microsoft owning your operating system and using it to push their data-harvesting software as a default browser is a monopolistic practice, whereas using Chrome by itself is just reinforcing an existing monopoly. The same goes for Mac and Safari or Android and Chrome.

          Neither option is good, but it’s a step in the right direction to punish a corporation for their active attempts to subvert competition in a bid to establish their own monopoly in place of the current one.

  • wuffah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    22 days ago

    They DESPERATELY want you to use Edge because they DESPERATELY want to watch what websites you visit, for how long, and what you click on. They want to know EVERYTHING about you:

    What you buy, what you masturbate to, what you like and don’t like, how you vote, what you watch, what music you like, the clothes you wear, what you children are like, what movies you watch, who you know… THEY WANT TO KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU SO THEY CAN USE IT AGAINST YOU: ADS. PROPAGANDA. VOTES. CONTROL.

    WE ARE BEING FARMED