What a perfect list of reasons not to use Edge.
this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2026
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- bullshit
- spying on your web traffic
- spying on your entire pc and causing ram to be unaffordable
- ???
4: "Pwetty Pwease 👉👈"
If this wasn't the top answer, i would have been very disappointed
For me, "earn rewards" is really important.
I doomscroll on 3 different platforms, I view xxx-sites, I check the weather, I buy a shower mat.
I should be rewarded!
(What is the reward exactly?)
Windows 10 extended security updates
You say that, but they let you link it to work account! I have so far gotten £40 of vouchers just casually doing nothing special.
Edge does work a lot better in MS 365 environment and it's work... so i can live with it.
Aw, don't be shy...
Cortana just wants to get to know you!
We swear she hasn't been locked in an airgapped cluster underneath Kirkland for about a decade now!
Pinky Promise!
Cortana would have gotten more love if they made her a big booby desktop pet.
TBH she wouldn't have even needed big booba.
Just... even just an animated face mesh.
Like really, they fumbled that whole concept so hard... a competent marketing department could made Cortana in basically the professional version of Hatsune Miku.
Even clippy had fucking animations.
Clippy had fucking animations? That's wild.
Yeah! It was a bunch of different gifs! Maybe ... 128x128 px at 12 or 24 fps, something like that?
He'd make 'facial expressions', and move around... looked kinda like Veggie Tales style animation.
And there was more than just Clippy, he was just the default. There was like... an Einstein look a like... a dog... I think there were at least 8 different little mascot type things, to go along with the actual 'speech bubble' style, actual user interface.
I remember just fucking around with this shit in the early 00s, in the computer lab.
EDIT
Ok, here's the Office 97 version:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-QBlKo6o4Ec
By the time I was using Office, a few years later, they'd figured out how to hide the 'window' that Clippy appears in, and basically alpha mask the gifs, make the backgrounds of them transparent.
So, not a true 'desktop buddy', as you had to have Word open, but ... yeah Clippy basically 'lived in' Word, if that makes any sense.
I knew it had animations, just not fucking animations.
I definitely trust Microsoft as a VPN provider.
Blue and green logo: ✅
Name is Edge: ✅
Remember looking to buy a new car and was looking at a cheaper edition of model and one of the highlights where “Logo on the steering wheel”
My every day in traffic: "Ah yes, I'm driving a Honda, I almost forgot."
Still so weird to me that from all their products they have killed over the years the Rewards are still "living".
I knew an idiot who used Bing Rewards as a reason to use Edge, saying you were stupid to not use it, since you got paid to browse and were getting free stuff. I mean, why even browse if you’re not getting paid? Why not be a digital serf for our tech overlords?
All their reasons or "benefits" are used to track you and sell your info lol.
There's a legit use for Edge: if I have to test out how a website looks on Chromium, I don't need to install Chrome, yay.
For everything else, there's Firefox though.
Your websites dont look the same in both?
Edge uses the same rendering engine as Chrome. Web devs need to check to make sure different browsers respond to CSS, JavaScript, HTML, etc. the same way, as they all don't necessarily do so, even though they should.
Well that's the neat part, they do, so I rarely need to test them!
Anything Microsoft recommends works in the opposite way, you should not trust. Same as opposite day!
chrome checks all those boxes too. - the vpn.
Alright, the red circle is extra unnecessary in this case
It is nice ✅
As have I.