"older" as in functional
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I thought Edge is just the browser people use when a website isnt working in their normal browser, to check if it's the website that's broken or the browser.
Do people use it for other things?
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This is relevant only to those with barely half a petri dish worth of sentience, though. All others haven't used Edge in years. 😉
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I bet the Venn Diagram of the "Uses Edge" and "Uses AdBlocker" is really small.
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Guess I must continue to use the "horrible" Firefox. Oh no. Anyways...
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I bet this will come as a terrible blow to Edge's dozens of users
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"Older" makes it sound like they've stopped being maintained. Headline should say "better"
People actually use edge?
I’ve only used it once, and that was to download a different browsers.
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Oh no. What will the 9 people who use Edge do?
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Oh noes, now I will have to continue not using edge, what will I do if I can't edge?
I don't support ending support for mv2. But a recent study does indicate that mv3 ad blockers are getting the job done:
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So strange to me that people would choose to use edge or chrome when other free browsers exist that let you do what you want.
The internet without an ad blocker is basically unusable
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Who the fuck uses edge anyhoo?
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This is a sign to quit edging now.
And now for the increase of the virus phone calls because an adblocker is NEEDED for the web
Not surprising for them to drop MV2, I expected it to happen even sooner, you would have to go out of your way to support MV2 extensions on chromium based browsers, and I do not see a reason for Microsoft to do that.
I get the impression that people want MV2 primarily for better ad/script blocking, but maybe the more secure and efficient way to go is to have built in adblocking. Firefox recently integrated adblock-rust, but you have to enable it in about:config and add filters manually, it seems very experimental and barebones at this moment compared to how it works in brave, for which it was written originally. It is probable some firefox forks expanded on this feature.
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Over the next few months, MV2 extensions will be gradually turned off by default. Users will be notified in advance and directed to recommended MV3 versions where available.
These changes will start in the Canary, Dev, and Beta channels and gradually broaden to Stable in the following months, with the goal of completing the consumer transition by the end of 2026. Managed devices will not be affected during the consumer rollout. Enterprise deprecation will follow in early 2027.
We need Authentiverse with browsers that serve users first.
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Librewolf
people use edge?
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How long until someone creates a render proxy that loads requested pages, reprocesses the result without the ads, and send that rendered output to your actual browser
Out of fucking spite.
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Massive, massive vuln for a lot of utilities which use edge by default but use ad blockers to prevent malware ridden ads from playing on their machines.
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Sick, I use it for work cause I have to, and my local adblockers will pick up the slack. Bye Felicia.
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