[MayflowerMadam]

I hate Edge.

[a fool in paradise]

I’ve seen this happen within the past 30 days.

[PAR35]

Microsoft promised for years that after January 14, 2020, they’d leave me and my Win7 alone.

They lied.

A few months after the ‘support end date’, they pushed out an un-asked for copy of Edge to my computer, installed it without my consent, and put it in the task bar to rub their misconduct in my face.

My current browsers on this computer, in order of use are
Brave
Firefox
Chrome
IE
Seamonkey (2.9.1) (not the current 2.53.4)

I don’t use the spyware called Edge on this machine.

[zaxtres]

Why is this new news? They do this now. If you have ever tried to find helpful information through their OS bar, the browser opens the site in Edge. They have been doing this for years. They have a habit of doing this. Their browser shipped with their Operating System. When opening a website then it would open on Explorer. There was a browser that went by the wayside because of this tactic called Netscape. Netscape won the anti-trust lawsuit but lost the browser war.

[catnipman]

it’s always just one kludge over the line, sweet Jaysus, with Microsoft ...

[faithhopecharity]

Why the hell wound a business do such a thing to patrons ?! Force is not part of proper business or sales or customer relations practices

[mad_as_he$$]

IE is simple garbage now.
Edge is close to it.

There are several much better browsers out there. I use Brave 90% of the time.

[minnesota_bound]

IE11 is old. At work we had to switch to Chrome as the various databases at the websites we connect to will not work well with IE anymore.

I use Firefox on my home pc as I can make changes to the toolbar look.

Edge and Chrome use the same chromium software and have a too minimum toolbar plus Chrome is so slow after a while if you keep the browser open with many tabs all week as I do.

Firefox use to have the same issue but not anymore. It does not crash due to memory leaks anymore.

[VastRWCon]

I am glad I don’t build websites anymore. Too much BS keeping up.

[ZULU]

Use Foxfire
F*** Gates

[martin_fierro]

I only run Windows on my work laptop because

1. a global Support team supports it in the background 24/7; and
2. I have to

IIRC our IT group told us specifically NOT to use Edge but rather Chrome instead.

[Openurmind]

What bothers me about this is that it is not up to MS who can or cannot visit my site. That is up to me whether to allow or block any certain browsers to access it or not. They have no right to block my site access as a 3rd party referee. This is mine and up to me not them...

[daniel1212]

https://www.sordum.org/9312/edge-blocker-v1-6/