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[–] 83 points 1 year ago (1 child)

gpt-4 powered browser

kill me

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  • [–] 69 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    "recommended by microsoft" kills me.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I don’t know what fucking idiot they think is going to say to themselves “well fuck if Microsoft recommends it that’s the way we go!”

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I think the average user sees recommended and just goes with it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Have you not been paying attention for the past 50 years?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Not sure what you’re alluding to. I’ve been paying attention for the last 30 (how long I’ve been using computers). During my childhood I used Windows at home and macOS at school; eventually I moved on to Linux at home then a mix of Linux and macOS at home.

    I haven’t used Windows since Windows XP so it’s really just a guess what you might be getting at. Am I to assume that OS vendors making poor suggestions in their UIs is normal?

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  • [–] 52 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    GPT-4 powered browser? Like they needed to make Edge an even less attractive offering or what?

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  • [–] 103 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Why the fuck would I want a browser with AI?

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    This could be asked of a thousand million other products in the past three years.

    But hey, here I am replying to this comment from my AI powered pants zipper, so...

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago

    GPT-4 powered

    thanks for the warning!

    now let me find something that works instead

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  • [–] 59 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Oh boy, a ChatGPT powered browser! Maybe it can hallucinate what I bookmarked and lose or leak all my passwords ☺️

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    Can't wait for GPT in my email client, so that it falls for phishing schemes when I'm relaxing.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I can tell you aren't using outlook

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah the place I work implemented the "enterprise version" of outlook with their garbage AI built in.

    I've never used the AI once, and if they don't give a shit about company data that's fine by me

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    they are desperate for someone to use their spyware filled Browser with AI shoved down your throat

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    I'm surprised it gives you the choice instead of the usual Microsoft nag: Set Default or Later.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I work in IT at a company who uses outlook, but has locked down the phones so the users can’t install anything.

    I can say without a reason of the doubt that outlook on Android is hateful.

    It’s still a 2010 era android app with non of the desktop features working. Like the signature not syncing with your saved ones. And focused inbox hiding important emails.

    But since the phones are locked down. These dark patten ads are twice as annoying since the user thinks there phone is broken. They just removed the Microsoft 2fa prompts on setup. But I saw this and almost cried.

    Don’t assume that users are smart enough to read or understand how this works. They press buttons until it works. If we didn’t force google play to not allow edge to download our users would’ve been in a much harder situation to support.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    This is a shitshow. I use open source mobile office suite and Outlook continually refuses to open PDF or other documents as nothing is installed, so would I like to use their bag of shit instead.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Quick question, what suite are you using on mobile? Haven't managed to find mutch open source stuff to edit word documents.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    ROFL This level of desperation goes to show how shit the actual experience of using Edge truly is. It wasn't bad, before they injected Edge with AI bullshit and bloated it with other trash.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It's not any worse than Chrome, which isn't saying much. Firefox is still the best user friendly browser, IMO.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I use Firefox on mobile and desktop, it is my preferred browser at the moment. I still think Edge is a bit worse due to the kitchen sink approach Microsoft takes with it, Chrome is definitely competing in the worst browser space.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    God ChatGPT sucks so much.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Fuck outlook, the app is trash.

    Nine works great for exchange servers, if you can't escape the Microsoft infrastructure altogether.

    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ninefolders.hd3

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Looks like the new reviews say otherwise

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    surely you get this only if you have edge already installed?

    if you just stop edging on your device, wouldn't this pop-up never appear?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    "Get Microsoft Edge to open" ? Why not just "Open Microsoft Edge"?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    At least the current version gives you a choice and remembes it. Outlook a few years ago, after an update, required you to open links in their built in web view. Took them a few months to reverse course on that stupid decision.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    outlook lol

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Install the android app called 'URLCheck'

    _ This returns to the power to the user to choose which browser to do what

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