Microsoft stole my Chrome tabs, and it wants yours, too

Submitted ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨noodlejetski@lemm.ee⁩ to ⁨technology@beehaw.org⁩

https://www.theverge.com/24054329/microsoft-edge-automatic-chrome-import-data-feature

Last week, I turned on my PC, installed a Windows update, and rebooted to find Microsoft Edge automatically open with the Chrome tabs I was working on before the update. I don’t use Microsoft Edge regularly, and I have Google Chrome set as my default browser. Bleary-eyed at 9AM, it took me a moment to realize that Microsoft Edge had simply taken over where I’d left off in Chrome. I couldn’t believe my eyes.

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raccoona_nongrata@beehaw.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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- vox@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  this is borked in win11, and got borked in win10 a month ago.
  my secondary win10 machine that had been edge-free for at least 4 years, just got edge back and since it was also disabled by policy, throws an error on every boot, since apparently that piece of crap tries to autostart for whatever reason (even if autostart option is disabled, it just starts in background, does something and closes a few minutes later)
  
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- UmbraTemporis@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Just want to mention Floorp, based on FF but with loads of additional options & appearance settings, also lightning-fast.
  
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  - nevernevermore@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Just want to mention Librewolf which is also FF based and has no telemetry out of the box, as well or ublock origin installed by default.
    
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Ascyron@lemmy.one ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
This behaviour is why I roll my eyes when the edge fanbois are all like “iTs AlL cHrOmE aNyWaY”.

Fuck any company that uses their power to try trick people into using their software, yes including google.

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JokeDeity@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Firefox is your friend.

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wick@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
That’s hilarious. Why would you use chrome instead of edge though? At least with edge you cut out google, with chrome you give data to both.

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fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Everyone in this thread is complaining about Chrome. They should be complaining about MS.

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- Faydaikin@beehaw.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Can’t we do both?
  
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- tesseract@beehaw.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Chrome’s singular purpose of existence is to give Google an avenue to vacuum up user data - both directly and through corruption of the web standards. Edge doing this crap is merely like giving a pig a clown hat. Fuck em both.
  
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Hirom@beehaw.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Look at me! I am the browser now

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1984@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Sounds like Microsoft. They did this all the time with Firefox before.

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tesseract@beehaw.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I thought I had heard the worst of it. But it’s their platform. They keep inventing new ways to screw their customers.

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- vanderbilt@beehaw.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Funny how the EU council considers iOS to be a big problem but not Microsoft’s behavior around Edge. Both need to be corrected, but only one has seen any action - and it ain’t Microsoft.
  
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Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
That’s horrible. Also normal.

And sad because none of those two things should even exist, much less dominate the market.

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- tesseract@beehaw.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  That last statement is exactly why I blame its users. They are complicit in this market abuse.
  
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HelixDab2@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Microsoft Edge is actually good, so I sure hope the team building it isn’t about to resort to more tricks to get Chrome users to use it.

No. No it is not.

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Auzy@beehaw.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Actually, I had this exact issue a year ago, had a rage fit, and bought a Mac. I hate Apple, but this was going way too far

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MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
If you intentionally load edge there’s a prompt you can say no to that asks if you want it to continue to try to pull information from other browsers.

IDK if that will prevent this, but it’s better than nothing.

IMO, this is underhanded at best. It’s as if some middle manager was tasked with getting more people using edge and they thought to themselves that most of their oblivious parents/grand parents/brothers/sisters/cousins/friends/whatever don’t really notice what browser they’re using (and frequently they don’t care), so let’s just move them over to edge as seamlessly as possible and they just keep using it because they’re too oblivious to even notice it’s not chrome.

To be fair, they’re right, but also that thought process is so morally bankrupt that it should be criminal. IMO, that a lot like replacing someone’s Toyota Corolla with a similarly designed Ford with the same engine under the hood, overnight, and hoping they just keep using it.

I don’t want to bash Ford here or anything, but they have very different ideas than Toyota on how to accomplish common tasks. They’re “the same” but very very not the same.

A better automotive comparison that I’m aware of would be the Mazda 626 and the Ford probe. They used the same engine but were very different cars to use. They performed the same basic function, but it was a very different experience.

I had a 626 ES V6 back in the day. If I woke up one day to find that someone had swapped it for a similarly spec’d probe, I would be livid. I don’t hate Ford, or the probe specifically, but I drive the 626. I know that car. I want to keep using that car. I don’t care that the probe is “basically the same”. Fuck off and give me back my 626.

I sadly spun a bearing on that 626 and when I heard the knock from the engine I knew it was time. I still miss that car.

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yournamehere@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
i havent seen windows being mentioned in my feed for a while but this is pretty funny.

“uh, i am using a closed system made by fellas known to love money and have no respect for anyone and now to my suprise yet another thing they did is not what i want.”

…and it is 2024.

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