I recently discovered that you can get Microsoft Edge for Linux (🤢🤮) and am curious… does anyone here use Edge for Linux, or have you ever? What was your reasoning for using it?

EDIT: Well, you all have provided some interesting perspectives I hadn’t ever considered. Including one which means I’ll have to install Edge, so… thanks, I guess. 😂

  • Trojaner@lemmy.trojaner.dev
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    1 year ago

    You mean the browser that literally states in their privacy policy that they assign an id to your device and send a ping every 24 hours containing this id and some other metadata including a part of your IP address with which they perform a geoip lookup to approximate your location?

      • Trojaner@lemmy.trojaner.devEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I’m not sure if I understand this article correctly but as far as I can tell, they kinda contradict themselves. While they talk about not collecting anything (which I understand as “we disable phoning home in its entirety”) they later talk about removing the id and still wanting to get the same information as before minus the id. While I appreciate the move, I have two problems with it:

        • The headline is imo misleading because while they technically won’t track you, they’ll still force you to send some telemetry data, leading directly to problem two,
        • You’ll still not be able to opt-out entirely like, for example, on Firefox