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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)
submitted 5 months ago by eatham@aussie.zone to c/assholedesign@lemmy.world
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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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[โ€“] SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Is this the choice pop-up they are now legally required to buy new EU laws? There's also a "remember" toggle. Isn't this a positive thing to exist?

[โ€“] groet@feddit.de 0 points 5 months ago

Absolutely. But MS chose to go the evil route again and ask right when you want to open a link. In that situation users want to open a link and not choose browsers so they are more likely to click on edge. It is deliberately annoying which is what op is angry about