On: Microsoft broke a Chrome feature to promote Edge

[charcircuit]

The econmics don't work out for someone making a browser specifically for you and no one else. Products typically are designed to support the needs of many people instead of optimizing for a single person at the detriment of everyone else.

[int_19h → charcircuit]

If that is the metric you want to go by, users outnumber advertisers by several orders of magnitude, so in this sense, anything that makes online ads easier is optimizing for the few at the expense of the many.

[charcircuit → int_19h]

It's trying to increase the privacy of the users while not upsetting the advertisers.

[justinclift → charcircuit]

"The advertisers can go f*k themselves" is probably the nicest way to put things. ;)

[JohnFen → charcircuit]

It's trying to make privacy invasions more palatable to people.

[JohnFen → charcircuit]

That person isn't alone, though.

In any case, why in the world would I want to use a browser that is working against my interests and in favor of the interests of an industry that has done nothing but been abusive for a very long time?