tech savvy ppl and non-techy ppl both dont like Edge, Bing and copilot
Google is fucking unusable as a search engine now. Bing is literally better now if you block the AI part.
Was searching for something very simple. Google literally wouldn’t find it. Changed the search terms multiple times.
Tried bing and it literally popped up as the first result with the same first search I tried on Google.
This isn’t a one time thing either. Give me an alternate to Bing. But Google is literally hot garbage now.
Edge is actually pretty great. Bing…well, the image search is okay.
Don’t knock Bing Videos, either. It’s the best porn search engine in existence.
I’ve heard that! But I’m gay so I’m not sure the shareholders want it to serve me.
I’m pan and trust me it’s not an issue. You can find anything you want there.
Where is Vivaldi?
Yeah, this is “tech” “savvy” people, not actual people who understand tech.
The current version of Edge is literally just Chrome with extra bells and whistles.
Yup. This is the meme of a kind of person who is “tech savvy” as an affectation they use to adorn their personality. It’s nothing more, with no deeper thought involved.
I just call myself a “guy on linux with a firefox fork” and nothing more to be honest.
I use Edge on Linux
Hello Satan.
Not OP, but I have been meaning to talk to my Ubuntu admin about Intune on his systems so we can use conditional access on them.
With how difficult it had been to get macs setup, I have a feeling Edge will be the only way it works.
So in enterprise situations…I’d say “Plausible”.
Personally I mostly use Firefox on Linux, but Proxmox gui doesn’t handle that so well…so for that I have an App-isized Ungoogled Chromium window.
Am an admin, funny thing about conditional access, we use various conditions but one is geolocation; we bar all logins outside of three countries relevant to our workers. We employed it mostly due to a continuous low-threat brute force campaign targeting a few exposed accounts that my data analysis had identified. In testing it out from Red Team’s perspective I quickly realized that conditional access will indeed prevent a login outside of the whitelisted countries, but it will gladly let the attacker know that the reason the login failed was due to conditional access and not an incorrect username/password. So all Red Team has to do is brute force the password and then VPN over to our country of operation and they’re in.
I’m using Edge and Bing right now, on Windows 11
clearly, either ragebait or Microsoft rewards.
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Tech savvy people like Duckduckgo, Duckduckgo uses Bing under the hood
We also maintain our own crawler (DuckDuckBot) and many indexes to support our results.
DDG uses a whole bunch of stuff, including feeding anonymized results through the bing API, but they’ve been largely driven by their own indexes for several years now after using Bing to bootstrap themselves.
I host my own search engine lol.
Ah, finally someone using the European open Search index?
No lol. SearXNG. But would look up what you mentioned
SearXNG is not a search engine. It is a Frontend for everything from Google to bing.
Ik that. I was talking in terms of a layman.
Yacy what you did there
I use edge on Mac.
Me too, I tried using Firefox on Mac but for some reason its power consumption is insanely high.
Something about Microsoft UI just feels so off for some reason. Material UI, Apple stuff all feels good to use but clicking on a button in Microsoft UI is just… bad.
Windows-only users would never know, but people who’ve either used a modern mac or linux computer will understand.
Or windows users that have been around 20 plus years…
Really it is sad just how bad its all gone.
I have Linux on my gaming PC, a Windows laptop at work and regularly work on a Mac to test stuff. I literally don’t see what you people love so much about the Mac UI. “Same but different”, sure, but nothing groundbreaking.
It makes me think of Fisher Price toys.
yeah it does really feel plasticky in the worst way
I think because they try so hard to be edgy (eheh) and different from the others, by constantly trashing known tested paradigms, refusing to fix known problems, all whike trying to invent the “brand new thing” that nobody wants and never reallt works out.
if im using chromium, it’s gonna be vivaldi
Can it set the bookmarks bar to only show up on the new tab page yet?
yeah basically any bookmarks you put in your speed dial older show up on the new tab page
Speed dial is not the same as bookmarks though
You forgot the panel where the tech savvy people wash their hands afterwards
What I find interesting is when typically non tech savvy people start using things like Brave.
Goes to show how shit the tech industry is
In my experience non-techy people just don’t know what Edge and Bing are.
Lol when our CFO called it “the wave browser”
Which “non-techy people” are we talking about here?
Nowadays some people only use smartphones or maybe tablets, and they might not know that. But most non-techy desktop users still use Windows and they certainly ought to know the default browser (and its search engine) on their OS, I would think.
I’m talking about people on Windows desktops. They don’t know what Windows is, they confuse Office with Windows all the time, they go online through the “internet symbol” which is their default browser that they don’t know the name of. Google is their default search engine and they’ve never seen any other search engine.
If Google is their default search engine, they must at least be tech-savvy enough to have changed the search engine in Edge, or installed another browser (probably Chrome).
I love how you guys go “oooh, tech savvy this” and “tech savvy that”, but you consider Chrome to be something fundamentally different than Edge without some extra features.
Buddy, it’s all Chromium. Sure, the telemetry data goes to MS instead of Google, but that’s it, that’s all the difference there is. Ignoring, of course, all the extra stuff MS has added, like vertical tabs, mouse gestures, etc.
“Tech savvy people use the Chromium with Google telemetry instead of Chromium with extra features and MS telemetry!!1”, lol!
I don’t see where I said anything that contradicts anything in your comment.
They might know the icon; they probably don’t know its name tho.
And in my experience, non-tech people use the default browser and its default search engine. If they hate it, they certainly don’t show it.
For many non-techy people it’s probably simply the internet button.
i like edging
in the meanwhile im using Zen Browser.
Thanks for introducing zen
No Problem, hope you like it!
