[rkaregaran]

Edge started as a reffreshing take on a chromium-based browser, then they regressed to absolute early 2000s bloatware-Microsoft. I was an avid user for about 4 years. Now I avoid it like the plague, except for their awesome “Read Aloud” feature. Can’t recommend Arc browser enough, it’s a browser built with craft and designed to streamline modern workflows.

[giancarlostoro]

As soon as whatever team turned Windows into bloat spyware gets a hold of a project at Microsoft all bets are off. Marketing / Telemetry Driven Development is the bane of good software. They took the lesson of screwing up colossally on Windows 8 and decided to spy on everything to make sure they don't make the same mistake, and with every change that they justify by "more people are joining" I'm inching closer to becoming a Mac / Linux absolutist. If .NET wasn't my bread and butter I'd be on Linux permanently.

[lapcat]

Edge has been problematic for a long time: "But the most intrusive phoning-home features were found in the new version of Microsoft Edge and the official Yandex Browser." https://www.zdnet.com/article/brave-deemed-most-private-brow...

[userbinator]

No, Edge started as an attempt to make a better browser engine. Then MS gave up and it became another Chrome-clone before acquiring its own brand of user-hostility.

[Tostino]

The additional features they added were quite nice though...until it got all the extra telemetry and bloat was added.

[tech234a]

The JS engine is open source: https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore

[esafak]

That's https://arc.net/

[maxerickson]

The initial version wasn't based on Chromium.

[stjohnswarts]

first thing it does is force me to sign up for an account? that's a no for me, dawg.

[jerrygoyal]

what's the business model of Arc? Don't want to switch if they run out of cash one day.

[esafak]

Uncertain: https://arc.net/faq