The Verge's Tom Warren was one of those who feared his PC had been infected when a pop-up appeared asking him to switch his default search engine...
  • m3t00🌎@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    1 year ago

    set the edge homepage to google. don’t use the widgets. crap news sites mostly

    • kugiyasan@lemmy.one
      51·
      1 year ago

      Just… Don’t use edge altogether? There are so many browsers with better privacy (librewolf, brave, ungoogled chromium, etc). Any reasons why you want to stick to edge so badly?

    • Honza368@feddit.uk
      1·
      1 year ago

      Why would you still use Edge, though? It’s a slow, bloated and spyware filled browser. Honestly, you’re better off with Chrome lol

      • m3t00🌎@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        i don’t use it. for when windows opens it trying to shove it in my face. was some msn crap

    • stib@lemmy.ml
      11·
      1 year ago

      Showing it to the man! Good job refusing to give into surveillance capitalism by using… oh, wait…