Google has rolled out "Privacy Sandbox," a Chrome feature first announced back in 2019 that, among other things, exchanges third-party cookies—the most common form of tracking technology—for what the company is now calling "Topics." Topics is a response to pushback against Google’s proposed...
Because Edge is just barely less intrusive than Chrome is, and collects a lot of similar data about users to sell off. And it comes with weird UI features cluttering the navbar, and an annoying sidebar all of which I have to remove / hide to keep the whole thing from looking overcrowded. Theres also a big old Bing Chat button that seems to be unhideable, and as someone who doesn’t want to stare at the huge Bing icon in the corner whenever I do anything on the web, it keeps me happy knowing I’m never using Edge.
Because Edge is just barely less intrusive than Chrome is, and collects a lot of similar data about users to sell off. And it comes with weird UI features cluttering the navbar, and an annoying sidebar all of which I have to remove / hide to keep the whole thing from looking overcrowded. Theres also a big old Bing Chat button that seems to be unhideable, and as someone who doesn’t want to stare at the huge Bing icon in the corner whenever I do anything on the web, it keeps me happy knowing I’m never using Edge.
Amen. Only using Edge when there’s no other choice.
Usually there is, though.