tech savvy ppl and non-techy ppl both dont like Edge, Bing and copilot
I use edge on Mac.
if im using chromium, it’s gonna be vivaldi
Tech savvy people like Duckduckgo, Duckduckgo uses Bing under the hood
I host my own search engine lol.
Ah, finally someone using the European open Search index?
No lol. SearXNG. But would look up what you mentioned
SearXNG is not a search engine. It is a Frontend for everything from Google to bing.
Ik that. I was talking in terms of a layman.
On my work computer I actually use Edge over Chrome since it has vertical tabs by default.
I love edge…
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i like edging
You forgot the panel where the tech savvy people wash their hands afterwards
Something about Microsoft UI just feels so off for some reason. Material UI, Apple stuff all feels good to use but clicking on a button in Microsoft UI is just… bad.
Windows-only users would never know, but people who’ve either used a modern mac or linux computer will understand.
Or windows users that have been around 20 plus years…
Really it is sad just how bad its all gone.
What I find interesting is when typically non tech savvy people start using things like Brave.
Goes to show how shit the tech industry is
In my experience non-techy people just don’t know what Edge and Bing are.
Which “non-techy people” are we talking about here?
Nowadays some people only use smartphones or maybe tablets, and they might not know that. But most non-techy desktop users still use Windows and they certainly ought to know the default browser (and its search engine) on their OS, I would think.
I’m talking about people on Windows desktops. They don’t know what Windows is, they confuse Office with Windows all the time, they go online through the “internet symbol” which is their default browser that they don’t know the name of. Google is their default search engine and they’ve never seen any other search engine.
If Google is their default search engine, they must at least be tech-savvy enough to have changed the search engine in Edge, or installed another browser (probably Chrome).
No they complained to enough people around them that “the internet doesn’t work” until someone did it for them
Is the 1# bing search still “google”?
They might know the icon; they probably don’t know its name tho.
Abd in my experience, non-tech people use the default browser and its default search engine. If they hate it, they certainly don’t show it.
For many non-techy people it’s probably simply the internet button.
I’m tech savvy, and I dislike Firefox.
Edge is just Chromium now (so worth hating still, but for different reason), and Bing has its uses. Hell, isn’t DuckDuckGo basically Bing?
Yup. Never understood the Bing hate, they got better years ago. DDG is a source in my SearXNG instance, does fine.
Yeah, it’s like bing but actually anonymous.
Bing has its uses
Porn?
Also yes.
Also
Go on…
Like I said, it’s one of the engines that drive DuckDuckGo. These days I only turn to Google on the rare occasion that DuckDuckGo fails me, so Bing gets some appreciation from me there.
Unfortunately even most DDG results are just ai slop now.
Google isn’t as good as it was and bing isn’t as bad as it once was
Not just DuckDuckGo - the majority of search engines and voice assistants that aren’t Google use data from Bing. It’s the largest search engine that has a public API. Even search engines that have their own index usually use Bing to supplement their results.
Id feel better about DuckDuckGo if it wasnt shoehorning ai
DDG seems fairly gentle about pushing it though.
Meh
Did I tell anyone about that time that I use arch?
Honestly, the preinstalled spyware aside, Edge is a pretty good browser. It’s, like, Chrome but better
This is like saying “patient is pretty healthy, except their health is failing”
Edge is a pretty good browser.
Setting aside my requirements to minimize spying and avoiding big tech. I agree.
But the dick is at least lubed!
Chrome is fucking us all no matter what form it happens to be taking at the time.
Non tech savvy people don’t care which browser they’re using. A lot of them do actually use Edge, since it comes with Windows.
