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• yata@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  At least as good as google. The belief that google is a better search engine is antiquated, based on a situation that no longer exists. Google has long since fallen to ad algorithms and bloat.

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• Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  People have this weird fetish for “Microsoft Bad”. If it comes from Microsoft, it’s bad by default. Reality doesn’t matter.

  The fact that Edge is just objectively a better browser than Chrome is irrelevant, because “Microsoft Bad”.

  The fact that Bing now provides just as good, if not better, results as Google, because Google enshittified its own product is irrelevant, because “Microsoft Bad”.

  The fact that Copilot runs on the exact same models as ChatGPT and gives practically identical results is irrelevant because “Microsoft Bad”.

  Etc., etc.

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  • Quadhammer@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Microsoft is bad though

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    • Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      See? This is exactly the childish shit I’m talking about. “Microsoft bad” is all you need to get upvotes, but if you state some cut and dry facts that are not attacking Microsoft, you get downvoted.

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  • festnt@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    microsoft is bad. google is too. and so is openai.

    edge used to be internet explorer, which used to be known as the worst browser ever. and if you care at all about privacy, the chrome-based microsoft browser isn’t a good idea.

    bing used to be really bad.

    copilot gets shoved down every window user’s throats.

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    • Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      edge used to be internet explorer, which used to be known as the worst browser ever

      And Linux used to not have a GUI. Are you going to complain that Linux is too difficult to use because it used to be command-line based? What even is this point?

      and if you care at all about privacy, the chrome-based microsoft browser isn’t a good idea.

      When comparing Chromium-based browsers you don’t expect much privacy at all. But even comparing Chromium-based browsers people will still go “ughh, Chrome is better because Microsoft Bad”, which is just a stupid thing to say considering Edge has everything that Chrome has and then a bunch of features on top of that. Including better resource utilisation.

      bing used to be really bad.

      See first paragraph.

      copilot gets shoved down every window user’s throats.

      What’s the point you’re trying to make here?

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      • festnt@sh.itjust.works ⁨57⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        edge used to be internet explorer, which used to be known as the worst browser ever

        what i meant by that is: people used to hate internet explorer because it was the worst. even though it changed completely, people still hate it because of it’s history.

        And Linux used to not have a GUI. Are you going to complain that Linux is too difficult to use because it used to be command-line based? What even is this point?

        yes, indeed. i’m not sure about GUI since that’s so long ago and windows used to be MSDOS, but similarly to edge, people think linux is hard because of it’s history of requiring the terminal for basic functions.

        When comparing Chromium-based browsers you don’t expect much privacy at all. But even comparing Chromium-based browsers people will still go “ughh, Chrome is better because Microsoft Bad”, which is just a stupid thing to say considering Edge has everything that Chrome has and then a bunch of features on top of that. Including better resource utilisation.

        honestly, idk much about edge, though i’ve also never seen anyone complain about edge simply because of “microsoft bad”.

        bing used to be really bad.

        See first paragraph.

        you too, i guess

        copilot gets shoved down every window user’s throats.

        What’s the point you’re trying to make here?

        people don’t want stuff shoved down their throats without consent, which seems to be what microsoft is really good at doing. actually, now that i think about it, that’s the same issue with edge, since whenever you uninstall it (which has to be done through unconventional means), it’ll just reappear the next time the system updates.

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      • PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        And Linux used to not have a GUI. Are you going to complain that Linux is too difficult to use because it used to be command-line based? What even is this point?

        When do you think Linux didn’t have a GUI? CDE was released in 1993, and let’s be honest: nobody used Linux before 1993.

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