tech savvy ppl and non-techy ppl both dont like Edge, Bing and copilot
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 just Chromium now (so worth hating still, but for different reason), and Bing has its uses. Hell, isn’t DuckDuckGo basically Bing?
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.
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!
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.
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
Yup. Never understood the Bing hate, they got better years ago. DDG is a source in my SearXNG instance, does fine.
Yeah, it’s like bing but actually anonymous.
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.
Did I tell anyone about that time that I use arch?
In my experience non-techy people just don’t know what Edge and Bing are.
Which “non-techy people” are we talking about here?
Nowadays some people only use smartphones or maybe tablets, and they might not know that. But most non-techy desktop users still use Windows and they certainly ought to know the default browser (and its search engine) on their OS, I would think.
They might know the icon; they probably don’t know its name tho.
And in my experience, non-tech people use the default browser and its default search engine. If they hate it, they certainly don’t show it.
I’m talking about people on Windows desktops. They don’t know what Windows is, they confuse Office with Windows all the time, they go online through the “internet symbol” which is their default browser that they don’t know the name of. Google is their default search engine and they’ve never seen any other search engine.
If Google is their default search engine, they must at least be tech-savvy enough to have changed the search engine in Edge, or installed another browser (probably Chrome).
I love how you guys go “oooh, tech savvy this” and “tech savvy that”, but you consider Chrome to be something fundamentally different than Edge without some extra features.
Buddy, it’s all Chromium. Sure, the telemetry data goes to MS instead of Google, but that’s it, that’s all the difference there is. Ignoring, of course, all the extra stuff MS has added, like vertical tabs, mouse gestures, etc.
“Tech savvy people use the Chromium with Google telemetry instead of Chromium with extra features and MS telemetry!!1”, lol!
No they complained to enough people around them that “the internet doesn’t work” until someone did it for them
Is the 1# bing search still “google”?
For many non-techy people it’s probably simply the internet button.
Something about Microsoft UI just feels so off for some reason. Material UI, Apple stuff all feels good to use but clicking on a button in Microsoft UI is just… bad.
Windows-only users would never know, but people who’ve either used a modern mac or linux computer will understand.
Or windows users that have been around 20 plus years…
Really it is sad just how bad its all gone.
I have Linux on my gaming PC, a Windows laptop at work and regularly work on a Mac to test stuff. I literally don’t see what you people love so much about the Mac UI. “Same but different”, sure, but nothing groundbreaking.
It makes me think of Fisher Price toys.
Fisher-Price actually has solidity to it. I’d take that over these pseudomagical plastic sticky notes.
yeah it does really feel plasticky in the worst way
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 like edging
I hate Bing but right now I am sour on anything Google.
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.
Honestly, the preinstalled spyware aside, Edge is a pretty good browser. It’s, like, Chrome but better
This is like saying “patient is pretty healthy, except their health is failing”
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.
ppl
\sigh
I’m using Edge and Bing right now, on Windows 11
ew
clearly, either ragebait or Microsoft rewards.
