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Break free from Big Tech's behavioral tracking and data selling.

Vivaldi respects your privacy: no profiling, no selling your browsing data, just browsing on your terms. ✅

Ditching Edge is easier than ever. One simple click, and your browser data has been moved over.

Microsoft lets you remove the #Microsoft Store, its #Edge browser in #windows, and much more. -- if you happen to live in Europe as @thomholwerda points out on @osnews

I love his final comment: "It’s almost like consumer protection laws work."

Yup. The #EuropeanUnion might seem as a slow and bureaucratic behemoth, but many people don't see how much it is doing for consumer rights sometimes.

osnews.com/story/142486/to-com

www.osnews.comTo comply with the DMA, Microsoft rolls out tons of Windows improvements, but only for users in the EU – OSnews

Regulation works. You can thank the @EUCommission for some important Windows changes, where Edge will nag you less.

I wish these were worldwide.

Still needs to be easier for users to set their preferred default browser. It used to be that the browser could ask you and if you allowed it, it would be set as default. It seems like you still have to go into the settings to change this.

theverge.com/news/678350/micro

The Verge · Microsoft will finally stop bugging Windows users about Edge — but only in EuropeBy Richard Lawler

From the vantage point of the High Line, we are presented with a striking perspective of the Edge building, an architectural marvel that graces the New York City skyline. The High Line, an urban park built on a historic elevated railway track, provides a unique and elevated view of this iconic structure.

#BuyIntoArt #NewYorkCity #HighLine #NewYork #NYC #Edge #Architecture #perspective #skyline #historic #railway

john-twynam.pixels.com/feature

At the April @w3c Member meeting in 🇫🇷, Michael Jackson, an engineering manager on the Microsoft #Edge team, shared some of the company's efforts in support of the W3C’s mission to help make the web fast, accessible and for everyone.

Efforts include style sharing across Web Components, help #developers analyze page load metrics and responsiveness, new ARIA capabilities, and reducing focus disruptions—all aiming for an inclusive, efficient experience on any device.

🎬 youtu.be/kttzFxsZ9_I

Another example of software doing shit I absolutely do not want. If I click a link in #microsoft #outlook, it opens #edge with the friggin email open in a sidebar. Why the fuck would I want this? I already have the email open. I guess some people might have a use for it (I can't imagine why). Fine. Make that a setting that they can turn on. Don't make me search for how to turn that annoying shit off. It's like software product managers are actively looking for ways to piss me off.

Replied to Estelle Platini

Here are comments on the evolution of browser share in a year.
(The three samples are heavily skewed to English-speaking higher eds.)
Last year results: techhub.social/@estelle/112047
You may still answer in the previous toot.

3/4 Fediverse members use #Firefox proper. Same as last year.
We welcome other parts of the Firefox family (any browser with Gecko inside):
• The share of Librewolf mentions doubled since last year.
• The share of other Gecko-based forks mentions also doubled since last year. (Even though some Waterfox usage is not logged because i did not list it.)

The shares of Chrome and Vivaldi were stable for the first thousand answerers (maybe more IT inclined) but doubled with the later thousand (in the last 24 hours).

The share of the last line (Opera-Blink-Brave mentions) decreased since last year.

#browsers#webDev#poll
Replied to Estelle Platini

Which browsers do you use?
• Multiple choice to account for various usage and any device (pro & perso)
• You may boost to enlarge the sample

It pains me, but I've caved to technical pressures and made Edge the default browser on my work PC.

Firefox has long been my default, but it gets confused about which account to use with which tab, and I often end up fighting to point it to the right account.

Nobody else in my IT department reports this problem. It's almost like Microsoft wants links in Teams to fail with 3rd party browsers. 🤔

Also, Teams sucks. Why do attachments have to be links and not actual files? #Edge