tech savvy ppl and non-techy ppl both dont like Edge, Bing and copilot
ppl
\sigh
Where is Vivaldi?
if im using chromium, it’s gonna be vivaldi
Can it set the bookmarks bar to only show up on the new tab page yet?
yeah basically any bookmarks you put in your speed dial older show up on the new tab page
Google is fucking unusable as a search engine now. Bing is literally better now if you block the AI part.
Was searching for something very simple. Google literally wouldn’t find it. Changed the search terms multiple times.
Tried bing and it literally popped up as the first result with the same first search I tried on Google.
This isn’t a one time thing either. Give me an alternate to Bing. But Google is literally hot garbage now.
What I find interesting is when typically non tech savvy people start using things like Brave.
Goes to show how shit the tech industry is
Edge is actually pretty great. Bing…well, the image search is okay.
Don’t knock Bing Videos, either. It’s the best porn search engine on existence.
I’ve heard that! But I’m gay so I’m not sure the shareholders want it to serve me.
I’m pan and trust me it’s not an issue. You can find anything you want there.
Bing used to be better than Google for a time but it has gotten worse too to the point where I use Google again. Edge is, IMO, unfairly maligned. It’s a perfectly good browser, although Microsoft begging me to use it is quite annoying.
Edge is just Chromium now (so worth hating still, but for different reason), and Bing has its uses. Hell, isn’t DuckDuckGo basically Bing?
Yeah, it’s like bing but actually anonymous.
Yup. Never understood the Bing hate, they got better years ago. DDG is a source in my SearXNG instance, does fine.
Bing has its uses
Porn?
Also yes.
Also
Go on…
Like I said, it’s one of the engines that drive DuckDuckGo. These days I only turn to Google on the rare occasion that DuckDuckGo fails me, so Bing gets some appreciation from me there.
Id feel better about DuckDuckGo if it wasnt shoehorning ai
DDG seems fairly gentle about pushing it though.
Meh
Google isn’t as good as it was and bing isn’t as bad as it once was
Not just DuckDuckGo - the majority of search engines and voice assistants that aren’t Google use data from Bing. It’s the largest search engine that has a public API. Even search engines that have their own index usually use Bing to supplement their results.
Unfortunately even most DDG results are just ai slop now.
Something really cool you can do though is block sites from showing up in the results.
So if you’re looking up Linux answers for instance and you keep coming across “First of all, what is a Linux, we’re going to…” Ai slop sites, you can click thr 3 dots next to the result and tell it to blacklist that site.
Not perfect, but definitely helps!
You’re quite limited on how many sites you can block. I at least try to report them, but it’s 90% of results and ai just keeps generating new domain names. Welcome to homehelpfixshowervalve.com!
Did I tell anyone about that time that I use arch?
I hate Bing but right now I am sour on anything Google.
Im dumb, whats the w logo?
Waterfox. It started out as a 64-bit build of Firefox for Windows, back when Mozilla didn’t offer that yet. These days, I believe, it just offers a few different defaults…
Like librewolf its basically firefox without mozilla bs
And it also has an android versionI didn’t knew librewolf had an android version. Fdroid?
They don’t. On their website they recommend ironfox for android. Haven’t tried it yet myself though (i have hoarded over 100 tabs on my phone so it’s kind of a pain to switch browser).
Non tech savvy people don’t care which browser they’re using. A lot of them do actually use Edge, since it comes with Windows.
I’m pretty tech savvy, I daily drive Arch and I don’t use Firefox or anything based on Gecko. Meme doesn’t check out.
you might be the only Linux user evee to have nstalled Edge
I didn’t say I use Edge.
i was just kidding around no worries :3
Bing is a better search engine than Google, but both are pale imitations of their former selves. It’s amazing how bad search has gotten in the last ~5 years
Honestly, the preinstalled spyware aside, Edge is a pretty good browser. It’s, like, Chrome but better
Edge is a pretty good browser.
Setting aside my requirements to minimize spying and avoiding big tech. I agree.
But the dick is at least lubed!
Chrome is fucking us all no matter what form it happens to be taking at the time.
This is like saying “patient is pretty healthy, except their health is failing”
