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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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More garbage from Microsoft making using their stuff take longer. (aussie.zone)
submitted 8 months ago by eatham@aussie.zone to c/assholedesign@lemmy.world
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I don't see anyone falling for this either, if they were going to they would already have edge installed.

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[โ€“] groet@feddit.de 24 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Absolutely. But MS chose to go the evil route again and ask right when you want to open a link. In that situation users want to open a link and not choose browsers so they are more likely to click on edge. It is deliberately annoying which is what op is angry about

[โ€“] eatham@aussie.zone 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Also the EU doesn't require it to be a pop-up, you just have to use the users set default afaik.