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Outlook suddenly started opening links in Edge, disregarding my default browser settings
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In no sense is Edge is a good browser. It is built for ads and tracking, and makes surfing the web inherently unpleasant.
Idk, performance wise is as good as chrome, and chrome is the standard. I use brave with extra privacy plugins, but saying that edge is a bad browser because of the tracking is weird when so is chrome and virtually everyone uses it.
You can install ublock origin and any other chromium based addons.
Isn’t ublock origin getting blocked on chromium soon? I switched back to Firefox a few months back to avoid that.
I also switched from saving passwords in the browser to Bitwarden so that I wouldn’t be tied to any single browser (or OS) and that has been great.
The creator of uBlock origin has been releasing uBO Lite separately to prepare for Google's fuckery. You can read about it here: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/platform/mv3/description/en.md
That’s good to know. It seems like almost all browsers are chromium based right now so having an option of real ad blocking is great.
I am amazed that anyone can browse the web or watch YouTube without ad blocking.
Right? It's so good to know there are still other reasonably people out there.
Whenever I see someone (nearly anyone) else's phone or pc being absolutely inundated with ads I can't help but wonder if they're allright in the head. There are so many mobile games that I never knew were ad-ridden until I saw them on someone else's screen ... eg. Wordfeud, there's apparently a video ad playing each time you submit a word. Wtaf...