Microsoft dangles $1 million prizes and Mercedes-AMG cars inside Edge as persistent pop-ups potentially spark fresh “bribery” backlash.
They’re just making themselves look trashy and desperate.
What might work is making their software better than everyone else’s. But that requires effort and skill and managerial competence.
All of whom Microsoft doesnt posses.
I bet they still have some good devs who are continually thwarted by management.
“our browser is so good, we have to offer bogus prizes to get people to switch to it!”
I used to use Edge at home, then ditched it. I used it recently at work and it is getting really enshittified. Now I’m between Cromite which works until suddenly the interface freezes, or Ungoogled Chromium which I haven’t got to work on the work laptop (it works now on my home Linux so whatever).
Edge used to be so much better before today.
Try out Firefox. It works incredibly well
Or Librewolf, which is a fork from Firefox and removes the telemetry that Firefox collects.
That’s too extreme for most people. A lot of people do want certain services to remember they logged in for example. Waterfox is typically the better recommendation - or, was. I’m less trusting of them after they chose to use Brave Browser code for an AdBlocker
We started to use ad blockers in the early 2000s because no one could trust they were the 999,999 visitor to the website.
It sounded (and stills sounds) scammy.
Let me guess… Existing users are excluded from participating? Cause I ain’t got no pop up banner anywhere. Or is cause I’m European?
Does Edge support Linux? Actually, never mind. I’m good.
Should you ever feel the urge to do something wild and stupid: yes, actually Microsoft offers an official Linux version of Edge.
Currently, for some inexplicable reason, Teams calls are broken on my Debian Trixie in all browsers except edge. I suspect foul play.
Wow, they finally got Teams to work in Edge?
Win a car that
may bewill be spying on you (don’t worry, no one will ever win the million dollars).