[moonchrome]

This is the worst option, Microsoft has consistently show they have the lowest ethical standards when it comes to products like Edge. They packed in a 3rd party payment tool in the browser ! It's like browser with crapware built in.

The only reason they aren't worse than Google is that they've been so shit at capturing the market share they don't get to make the same kind of moves, but Bing/Edge are not good alternatives for Google/Chrome.

I'm not one of those people that screams "M$ evil boooo", I actually use .NET day-to-day on a current project. But they have a really shit track record on Edge, it's the first browser I would avoid.

[skrowl]

Your M$ evil boooo mentality is somewhat out of date.

Microsoft is making great strides in open source and Linux. A decade ago, you wouldn't have believed MS would publish SQL Server for Linux, release something as great as VS Code, create Windows Subsystem for Linux (and Android soon), acquire npm and github and make them better rather than destroying them, etc.

[heavyset_go]

Your "Microsoft <3's open source" mentality is also out of date[1][2][3].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28975856

[2] https://keivan.io/the-day-appget-died/

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28794352

[DeathArrow]

What 3rd party payment? I enjoy Edge because it blocks ads on Android, supports Chrome extensions and it is not controlled by Google.

[moonchrome]

There was a post here recently about it [1]. After shipping this with browser I would have 0 trust in this product.

I gave up on Edge because it didn't support uBlock origin on Android, I view bundled add blockers as just another way for the browser to block competition while still serving you their own "respectful" ads.

[1] https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-edge-buy-now-pay-la...