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1. i’m The Spinch, Baby! 4 min later

   @zachleat yeah every time someone tells me how good Edge is, I see something like this that tells me that MS is being a snoop.

2. jerry 5 min later

   @zachleat the app probably uses less resources

   https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/tidal-music-streaming/9NNCB5BS59PH

   1. Zach Leatherman 8 min later

      @jerryD I think you might have misunderstood. Tidal and Spotify are competitors—it seems like Microsoft is selling OS-level advertising space on Tidal’s web site (basically).

      1. jerry 32 min later

         @zachleat oh no, I understood (I think?). Microsoft has bloated the Edge browser with unnecessary garbage like that Spotify/adWord-like dialogue. Using the Edge browser is like walking into Times Square these days. I was just suggesting using the native Tidal application for Windows instead of the website. Also, I recommend never using Edge.

3. p1xelHer0 5 min later

   @zachleat Windows feels more and more like a service instead of a OS

   1. Zach Leatherman 8 min later

      @p1xelHer0 and that’s fine but this is quite an overstep

4. Zach Leatherman 6 min later

   This is a *huge* violation of the core principles of the web.

   1. Gabriel N 24 min later

      @zachleat there are serious privacy issues with that browser: would you consider using something else?

      1. Zach Leatherman 25 min later

         @wtrmt it’s just a testing machine, I use Firefox as my daily driver

   2. 🍄🌈🎮💻🚲🥓🎃💀🏴🛻🇺🇸 27 min later

      @zachleat never forget, M$ has no principles, except to make money. It's still a corporation; it's just a hungry one these days.

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   5. abhijith 6 hr later

      @zachleat Ehm... proprietary software and principles are mutually exclusive.
   6. Josh Duff 8 hr later

      @zachleat I luxuriate in the definition of “user agent”

5. Luke Andrews 8 min later

   @zachleat The intrusion of ads into software required to use hardware one has paid for drives me bananas. This is the dark future of constant surveillance and user data harvesting that cheap TVs already portend. I don’t want to be the product.

   1. Zach Leatherman 10 min later

      @attaboy I think it’s more than that—if I run a web site, do I want a competitor’s advertising to show up when a visitor goes to my web site?

      1. Luke Andrews 35 min later

         @zachleat Agreed, it’s an abomination. Much like search keyword ads from competitors, except even more of a hostage-taking situation.

         1. Zach Leatherman 38 min later

            @attaboy yeah! Definitely some overlap there—leads me to believe that Microsoft thinks of Windows in the same way that Google thinks of google.com, which is frankly a scary realization.

6. Braw ☕🏳️‍🌈 10 min later

   @zachleat this is such a shame! Edge is a great browser, but it is riddled with ads and other bloat from Microsoft. I don't understand why they do this — this only turns users away and sparkles controversy.

   1. Apicultor 🐝 11 hr later

      @brawaru @zachleat I need to start using "sparkles controversy" more often.

7. Francis 🏴‍☠️ Gulotta 11 min later

   @zachleat yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh that’s legit

8. NullSprite 13 min later

   @zachleat Not to start too much of an OS war, but examples like this is why I can't get comfortable with Windows anymore. Linux isn't as neat out of the box, but at least I know what's going on most of the time, and with how software has evolved over the past years there's mostly no difference otherwise. (For me, of course. YMMV.)

   1. Zach Leatherman 16 min later

      @nullsprite This seems like a fair take to me

9. Matthias Ott 19 min later

   @zachleat 🤨

10. Dave 🧱 23 min later

    @zachleat grim

11. Nicholas 🏳️‍🌈🇮🇹🇺🇦 34 min later

    @zachleat The shopping stuff is likely paid for by advertisers. It’s not in the OS, but part of the Edge browser. You can turn it off. I get annoyed by them snooping at my content and then recommending stuff to buy.

    1. Zach Leatherman 36 min later

       @ozmox just looking at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/rewards it doesn’t seem limited to Edge (even though this instance may be shown by Edge)

12. David S. Reed 43 min later

    @zachleat This is why I'd like to move away from Microsoft's products; because their "ecosystem" is so intrusive. But switching to Linux seems to require a lot of work to get it running and keep it running.

13. Dirk Hohndel 1 hr later

    @zachleat Every time I need to use something other than Brave to browse the web (or am not behind a Pi-Hole) I’m just appaled. How do people accept this level of BS???

    1. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later

       @dirkhh yeah, it’s not good.

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15. Jonas Nordlund 5 hr later

    @zachleat Damn. I’m even happier to have returned to Firefox now.

16. tripleman, a 🇨🇦 in 🇩🇪 20 hr later

    @zachleat This is my shocked face 😐 et cetera and so on…

17. Naiyer 1 day later

    @zachleat That's why I don't use Edge. Wait till you "update" your machine and get a full-blown OneDrive ad before login screen.

    1. Zach Leatherman 1 day later

       @naiyer I mean, even that seems less egregious!

       Showing ads in an OS you control for other products you own: not great, but fine.

       Showing ads on top of other businesses web sites for their competitors—WHAT

18. Monkeboi 2 days later

    @zachleat well, #linux is always an option!