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Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called Google Chrome a "rounding error" — 17 years later, Internet Explorer is dead, and Microsoft Edge can barely catch up | Google CEO Sundar Pichai admits that B… (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] Nytefyre@piefed.social 108 points 3 days ago (3 children)

And now people absolutely distrust and detest Chrome, Firefox is having an identity crisis on its hands, Edge is pretty much dead.

Browsers have gotten interestingly bad.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Edge is pretty much dead.

I honestly don't know why. If you are a Windows user and don't care about privacy, you may just as well stick with Edge. As a Chromium web browser by a megacorp, it's in no way worse than Chrome.

[–] thejml@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Honestly, not going with chrome means only one massive corp is stealing your data, not two.

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I thought Chromium still phoned home to Google

[–] Hund@feddit.nu 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It does, and there's nothing you can do about it either, other than, obviously, switching to an alternative web browser.

[–] Opal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

All chromium based do, even something like Helium can't remove that?

[–] Hund@feddit.nu 5 points 3 days ago

Helium should be fine. They're, to my understanding, a fork of ungoogled-chromium, and they seem to proxy all calls to Google for you. It shold be a safe enough web browser for 'regular' people who care about their privacy.

[–] badgermurphy@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Unless they specifically say they don't, they do.

[–] timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I mean, edge is a viable option for enterprise. Works with gpos, etc. So easy to roll out and lockdown there.

I still think it's garbage like every chromium browser but that's its big sell.

[–] fushuan@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago

If company is gonna lock downs extensions and force SSO on us, making Firefox non-viable (not that I'm allowed to install it anyway)... Fuck it edge we go, they have a Microsoft SSO stack anyway, it's not like Microsoft isn't tracking what I'm doing already lmao.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And now people absolutely distrust and detest Chrome

What "people" are you referring to? Because Chrome is the most popular browser, by a landslide.

[–] 0x0@infosec.pub 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Look beyond your landslide

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago

Sure, some people hate it. But for most, using it seems quite the no-brainer. Without that "some", the statement sounds too universal to be accurate.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 0 points 2 days ago

Yes, I guess if you ignore Chrome, everyone hates Chrome...?