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Voltie — She/Her Posted 4 years ago ( 2020/06/28 23:02:11 )
I'm using my Surface Go right now, and something I noticed recently with it is that it never seems to load ANY comments on Youtube. So I decided to try out this new microsoft edge from the latest windows update... and I'm surprised that it's ACTUALLY good? Like, I would say on par wiith Chrome (I'm loyal to chrome ever since i started using it like 10+ years ago lol)

I still use Chrome for everything else, it's just here on my surface go that I use microsoft edge. im just so surprised lol. But i think I read somewhere that it is kind of outsourced from google? maybe that's why it's very chrome-like lol

What browser do you guys use?
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Donator — She/Her Posted 4 years ago ( 2020/06/28 23:07:16 )
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I use Chrome, and im debating on giving that whole Microsoft edge a go, I'm just not sure.
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Voltie — She/Her Posted 4 years ago ( 2020/06/28 23:13:40 )
@star2000shadow: If you're using Windows - then I would say definitely give it a try. I feel like I'm still using Chrome tbh lol. Just minus the theme that I have on my Chrome. :viosweat:
And for me the Bing as search engine was kind of annoying - but they made it possible to change the search engine to google, too! So i'm very happy with it! ♥
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Donator — She/Her Posted 4 years ago ( 2020/06/28 23:14:50 )
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hmm might give it a try. thanks for suggesting it. and awesome avi by the way.
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Donator Posted 4 years ago ( 2020/06/28 23:41:41 )
I use Chrome and Firefox(mainly for a game that dosen't look right in chrome). Sometimes every once in a great while I will use Microsoft Edge (I still call it explorer, lol) for certain things that don't load right... mainly youtube vids.
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Voltie — He/Him Posted 4 years ago ( 2020/06/28 23:47:19 )
"You've had too much of the digital love..."


I use Firefox only, no Chrome or Edge - for personal reasons regarding privacy/data. I used to be a big Chrome fan and then ended up switching to Brave a couple years ago, and then finally to Firefox this year. The only thing I miss is like, easy user-switching - but Firefox has containers that can be used for that purpose =v=;


"You want everything live, you want things you can touch."
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Voltie — He/Him Posted 4 years ago ( 2020/06/29 15:13:50 )
"You've had too much of the digital love..."


@Totalanimefan: I haven't used much of Apple seeing as I have only owned Android based things. Now if I can only get Google off my phone entirely without breaking it :/

I think the worst privacy stance held by a company is TikTok - if there is an API used to collect data about you, they use it... which is scary for me to think about. Thankfully I don't use it =v=


"You want everything live, you want things you can touch."
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Voltie — He/Him Posted 4 years ago ( 2020/06/29 18:24:54 )
"You've had too much of the digital love..."


@Totalanimefan: Many of my family members use TikTok - encouraging me to make one, and I straight up tell them, "I don't want my data stolen." People claim that the data is anonymized - but they steal so much of your data that you can easily be identified from only the data =_=

I'm glad at least one person agrees with me on TikTok's privacy stance though, for a while I thought I was just like, paranoid =v=;


"You want everything live, you want things you can touch."
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Voltie — He/Him Posted 4 years ago ( 2020/06/29 19:39:23 )
"You've had too much of the digital love..."


@Totalanimefan: Tbh I wouldn't want my data collected and sent anywhere =v=;
I'm glad I'm not just being paranoid though!!


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Voltie — They/them Posted 4 years ago ( 2020/06/30 18:27:02 )
My laptop is essentially a potato with a couple of wires and diodes sticking out.

I use Firefox, because chrome is too much for it to handle and runs very slowly.
Haven't tried the new Edge yet.
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Donator — AAAAAAAAAA Posted 4 years ago ( 2020/06/30 20:17:23 )


    had a bad first impression when the thing forced itself to try to be my default browser :b
    i have all of my stuff saved in firefox tho, don't really want to migrate lol

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Donator — they/them Posted 4 years ago ( 2020/07/1 00:25:07 )
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chrome uses up SO much ram but i'm used to it ... i think safari is p fast and i Love swiping to go back (it's preloaded and feels really satisfying) but i use the chrome inspector enough to stick to it
if someone were to ask me tho i would probably rec firefox! mozilla is a great org and and is not-for-profit :-) so they don't have any incentive to like, sell ur data
i think the real reason google invested in chrome is for data collection >_>

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