What happens if you lose the push of Microsoft and choose 'Edge'?

A writer of Ars Technica, an IT news site that has been using Edge for more than two years since Microsoft released the Chromium version of Edge, said, 'Microsoft's way of asking you to use Edge and Microsoft products is becoming more aggressive. I am complaining.

I like Microsoft Edge. But if it doesn't get less annoying, I'll switch again | Ars Technica
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Andrew Cunningham, senior technology reporter at Ars Technica, said that Edge with Chromium seems to have slightly better memory and battery usage than Google Chrome, and that it passed it to Microsoft rather than passing personal information to Google. We decided to switch to Edge at the same time as the preview version of Edge for macOS, because it feels awkward and is more likely to have long-term support than smaller browsers like Brave and Opera. I decided.

Cunningham said he was happy with Edge and never missed Chrome, but he's closed to the recent start of Microsoft adding various 'values' to Edge without permission. It seems that there is. One example is the ' Buy Now, Pay Later ' feature that Microsoft has added to Edge. This function, which is provided jointly with the payment service Zip, is a function that allows all online shopping performed on Edge to be postpaid in installments, but it will be introduced unilaterally regardless of the user's intention and the browser will become heavy. There are a lot of criticisms from users because of the high interest rate.

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Initially, he wasn't interested in this new feature and wasn't welcoming or rejecting it, he said. I started to behave in the same way as I did, which made me terribly frustrated. '

According to Mr. Cunningham, Microsoft has recently begun to introduce price comparison functions and coupon issuing services in rapid succession, not limited to this postpaid service, and when it detects that a user is trying to shop, it will display a large number of pop-ups. It came to come. It's possible to hide pop-ups and opt out of unwanted features, but this time it stops syncing bookmarks and settings.

Cunningham is also fed up with Microsoft's insistence on Edge for non-Edge users and Bing for search engines for Edge users, saying Bing is 'more accurate than Google.' Bad, the worst search engine with no benefits like DuckDuckGo, which emphasizes privacy. ' 'Even though we chose to use Edge in the first place, the constant urge to switch to Edge and use Bing is a sign that Microsoft is fundamentally downplaying user preferences and decision-making capabilities. I blamed him.

Because of these issues, Cunningham described Edge as 'I believe Edge is a good browser, and for the time being I'm not going to put together bookmarks and switch browsers again, but the brute force Microsoft uses to market Edge. And the extra features that the company is adding make it difficult to recommend Edge to others. '