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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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More garbage from Microsoft making using their stuff take longer. (aussie.zone)
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I don't see anyone falling for this either, if they were going to they would already have edge installed.

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[–] my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 50 points 8 months ago

No, one of the two options there is "default browser" meaning the user likely already has a non-edge default browser set up. This is clearly Microsoft trying to trick users into using Edge even when they've chosen not to.