this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2023
1018 points (97.5% liked)

Technology

61166 readers
5939 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
1018
Microsoft now pops up a poll asking why you'd want to use another browser when you download Chrome (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 year ago by dantheclamman@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
344 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] Hagdos@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, why not? For the layman Microsoft is the name of a company that has existed for a long time and has made reliable, functional products.

Even for the non-layman, Microsoft isn't a perfect company, but it's not as if Google is any better.

[โ€“] JonEFive@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

From what I've read, Edge sends way more data back to Microsoft than Chrome sends to Google which is already too much.