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Shrug. Windows 10 keeps nudging me to use Edge.


Ha! Nudging is an understatement.

* If you type Chrome into Bing you'll get a full page ad urging you not to switch.

* If you try to switch to use Chrome as your default browser it will ask you if you're really sure and you have to click the tiny text to actually switch.

* Edge and Windows 10 will send you notifications about Edge being the recommended browser and it's speed/security/whatever.

* If you install Adobe Reader and check "set as my default PDF reader" Windows 10 will send you a notification saying that "there's something wrong with your default reader app" and set it back to Edge.

* In the start menu Edge gets special treatment by having flavor text that says it's the Microsoft recommended browser.

* You have to use 3rd pary hacks to get the start menu search to use anything other than Edge & Bing.

* Microsoft teated a feature on insider builds which intercepted the installers for Chrome and Firefox and displayed a pop-up asking them to use Edge instead.

* Before they got backlash for it, once you switched your default browser to something not Edge Windows would open up your new browser to an ad for Edge.


You'd think they spend more time actually making Edge not shit..




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