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    8710 months ago

    There’s an alternate timeline in which I actually give Bing and Edge a chance because Microsoft’s not flinging their feces at their users constantly the way they are now

    • @hayhay@programming.dev
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      3910 months ago

      It’s wild because Bing is generally quite good now, but I switched away from it recently because it kept trying to advertise edge…

      Meanwhile edge tries to advertise “pay later” schemes and really gets in your face about bing…

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        1410 months ago

        So to be honest, I did use Bing for a good while, mostly for the rewards, and it wasn’t bad, but at some point I was using a Canadian IP with a VPN, and Microsoft stubbornly switched everything to Canadian currency and would no longer let me redeem my rewards with US dollars or within the US lol. Honestly, it’s one thing that nudged me to start thinking more about using a search engine that’s not as problematic as Google or Bing.

        • @hayhay@programming.dev
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          110 months ago

          Yeah I’ve had similar experiences with Microsoft switching my currency out of nowhere and it was weird…

          Recently been using Brave Search but in general I feel like there just aren’t any good search engines anymore?

      • @Spiritreader@lemmy.world
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        19 months ago

        It was a really good time when the new chromium edge just came out and was a lean, quick and bs-free browser with a few power user features.

    • @evatronic@lemm.ee
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      2510 months ago

      Until about maybe six months ago, Edge was great (please ignore the massive amount of data it sends to MS) as a browser. The user experience was top notch.

      Some product owner with shit for brains was hired and started cramming Bing and AI nonsense into every corner.

      MS needs to ease up, fast.

    • @Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2110 months ago

      The sad thing is that Edge is actually decent, and Bing is also not terrible… E.g. as an user there is absolutely no reason to use Chrome instead, but Microsoft managed to make it seem so annoying with shit like this.

      • Dee
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        610 months ago

        I’ve actually found Bing to be way better than Google for a while now. It’s not even close, idk what Google did to their search engine but it’s pretty frustrating. It’s all ads and irrelevant links.

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          910 months ago

          I’ve switched entirely to Startpage and SearXNG instances, and I’m having a much better time

    • @saltesc@lemmy.world
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      210 months ago

      I did that once. I’m Firefox and DuckDuckGo now. Love it. The difference in being served the internet and surfing the internet. Ha. Haven’t heard that term in a long time.