Image finally uploaded. Sorry about that.

[Edit. Fixed the headline a bit, due to my poor phrasing]

  • yesman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    79·
    10 days ago

    This isn’t cooperation, this is rivalry. The point is for you to use Edge instead of Chrome.

    Just another skirmish in the war for what matters most: which tech-giant is the default choice.

    • A_norny_mousse@feddit.orgEnglish
      7·
      9 days ago

      You mean, chromium-based browser vs. chromium-based browser?

      I know, it’s about data mining (don’t call it telemetry), but still. Funny. I bet they didn’t even remove all Google links from the source code.

    • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pubOPEnglish
      43·
      10 days ago

      I’m sure that’s an end goal here, but logging into a Google account through Edge, integrates it into the Windows OS. Sort of like (but not as intensely as) logging into a Microsoft account through Edge. So, while, yes, it’s end goal is through rivalry, the method is a partnership.

      • ricecake@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        10 days ago

        I’m not sure it’s a partnership. It looks and reads like the standard authorized data sharing setup. Anyone can configure that. It uses an open protocol that’s standardized, let’s users control the information shared with explicit consent and is basically what you want out of any entity that holds all your crap. The only thing it’s really lacking is a standard protocol for sharing the actual data.

        Linux distributions have it.

        Microsoft using Google’s public documented API is a long way from a partnership.

      • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        10 days ago

        Edge is a Chromium browser. This is the standard Chrome sync stuff from nearly every one of those.

  • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.orgEnglish
    182·
    9 days ago

    People will complain about everything, but never just switch to Firefox, huh? You can’t be helped then. There is just the one browser (and a couple of forks of it).

  • londos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    9 days ago

    I wonder if it’s an early response to the talk of breaking up Google and Chrome. MS gets more people onboarded to Edge and Google still gets your browser level metrics.

  • yeehaw@lemmy.caEnglish
    11·
    9 days ago

    Booted my desktop since my work computers windows and I game mostly on my steam deck, and holy shit is Manjaro fast as hell compared to windows in 2025. Like I’m so used to clicking and waiting and in Manjaro you click and it’s just there.

    Man fuck windows.

    • alsimoneau@lemmy.caEnglish
      7·
      9 days ago

      Yeah, just started using W11 for work and it’s insane how often I need to wait for character to buffer in after I typed something.

      I shouldn’t be faster than my computer in this day and age, and yet here we are.

      • A_norny_mousse@feddit.orgEnglish
        11·
        9 days ago

        I’m currently horrified how my (IT illiterate) employer said we need to update all our 20+ laptops to Win11 now. Consumer laptops that barely run Win10.

        To be clear, I’m not the IT guy here, though I do sometimes help out.

        • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pubOPEnglish
          2·
          9 days ago

          Same boat here. W10 is EOL. A crapton of good-enough laptops are about to go into the landfills all over your world. What a disgrace.

          • A_norny_mousse@feddit.orgEnglish
            2·
            8 days ago

            Yeah. Or they’ll go through with it, and then realize later that they “need” to buy new ones.

            Maybe I can still convince them to switch to Linux. We’re not dependent on any MS or Windows only products.

            • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pubOPEnglish
              2·
              8 days ago

              I mean this in the most sincere way possible: I hope you succeed in this endeavor.

              Edit: Autocorrect went crazy lol

        • alsimoneau@lemmy.caEnglish
          21·
          9 days ago

          You do though. W10 EOL is October, and you’re not gonna move to Linux, sadly.

  • buttnugget@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    9 days ago

    I don’t really understand the issue here. Why does anyone care if you can sign into Google services on Edge?

    • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pubOPEnglish
      7·
      9 days ago

      It’s not the ability that’s bothersome (that part is fine, and has been there). It’s the fact that this is part of the first boot screen you see on Edge now, with dark patterns to get you to do it.

  • Valmond@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    9 days ago

    True or not, I’m one email away from total freedom.

    Just wonder about anti spam measures.

      • Valmond@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        9 days ago

        I have 1 gmail, and their anti spam has usually been very effective, I have to find some other email with an effective anti spam before jumping the boat.

        • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pubOPEnglish
          2·
          9 days ago

          Possible on pro (at least, for now). But, not on home last time I checked (which, admittedly, has been about a year). My daily non-work computer is not, and will never be, windows. But work is work.

  • brax@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    9 days ago

    Edge has been Chromium based for a while now. Hell, a lot of the 365 stuff will only work in Edge or Chrome.

    It’s wild how corporations are so openly cool with paying license fees to give everything away to Microsoft.

    I would have told them to pound sand as soon as they tried to push the 365 and Azure shit if I was a business.

  • some_random_nick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    9 days ago

    To put it into perspective: if Leibniz was right and this is truely the best of all worlds, be happy that you don’t live in any of the other, more shittier timelines. Like the one where Apple sells monitor stands for $1000. Oh, wait…

  • DarkCloud@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    10 days ago

    The tech bro corporate class is kind of in bed with each other. Individuals at Palantir and Meta were given the rank of Lt. Colonel the other day. They all contribute to each other’s data (selling and trading it to the same data brokers). Have similar people funding them, using and buying their products. Lots of the messaging and cultural stances they take are similar. Their heads know each other, or have ways to contact each other. Some have histories of working at the same companies, knowing the same people. Occupying the same end of the class war.

  • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    10 days ago

    This is literally the standard Google sync account stuff in every Chromium browser. Don’t want it? Pick a browser that isn’t Chrome based. That basically leaves Firefox or a handful of brand new alpha buggy browsers no one has heard of with dubious update potential.

      • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        10 days ago

        It’s a screen made by Microsoft to match their aesthetic and settings pages, of course. But it’s the exact same Google account sync system that every Chromium has, unless you’re specifically using an unGoogled version.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    10 days ago

    What? How was Mozilla ever in any kind of OS integrated way in bed with Google?
    Google was just the default search engine in their browser. That’s it, and it’s dead easy to change the default search engine in Firefox.

    Why are you making a completely false equivalence, to make Mozilla look bad? Also Firefox is open source, so Mozilla even lets you use a fork, with all the functionality of Firefox with whatever you don’t like changed.

    • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pubOPEnglish
      6·
      10 days ago

      That’s what I was saying. Everyone gave Mozilla flack for their deal with Google, and here MS is doing it way, way worse. I actually don’t mind that Google was the default search engine in ff. It made it usable out of the box for the vast majority of users, and the minority had to click two button to change it. Seemples.

      • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        10 days ago

        OK fair enough, but that’s not what it looked like to me when I read the headline.
        I don’t use anything Microsoft, and I use only very few Google things for basic functionality of my phone.