I never asked for edge!
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| 1 | My older windows 7 computer installed it automatically, and I'm getting tons of complaints from others who have lost their "google" lol. Seems its even importing your browsing data over from Chrome without your permission too. Are Microsoft trying to start browser war 2? nzoomed - 2020-08-03 09:28:00 |
| 2 | https://www.trademe.co.nz/Community/MessageBoard/Messages.as peanuts37 - 2020-08-03 10:31:00 |
| 3 | Google is a search engine not a browser. lythande1 - 2020-08-03 12:40:00 |
| 4 | nzoomed wrote: yeah i get that a lot from some clients as well, you kinda give up trying to explain the difference to some of them, they just don't get it... Edited by king1 at 12:46 pm, Mon 3 Aug king1 - 2020-08-03 12:45:00 |
| 5 | lythande1 wrote:
Obviously Google is a search engine, but the average Joe don't have a bloody clue what google is lol In most cases chrome users will have google as their homepage anyway, and if edge takes over everything goes to bing. If you know enough about changing search engines and/or default browsers to begin with, then likely they don't need to call me for help to begin with lol nzoomed - 2020-08-03 13:03:00 |
| 6 | king1 wrote:
Yup, I get this as a daily occurrence. nzoomed - 2020-08-03 13:04:00 |
| 7 | 100% seen the "I've lost my Google" over and over and over and over......... nice_lady - 2020-08-03 13:09:00 |
| 8 | nice_lady wrote:
I agree lol. Saw this article BTW https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/microsoft-edge-is-m nzoomed - 2020-08-04 08:56:00 |
| 9 | After many weeks of playing, have figured how to exterminate this virus called 'edge'. Boot in safe mode. tegretol - 2020-08-07 09:59:00 |
| 10 | tegretol wrote: are you referring to newer Chromium based Edge or the original win 10 Edge? I would have thought there would be more than one folder involved... king1 - 2020-08-07 10:10:00 |
| 11 | lythande1 wrote:
As they said, “google” pico42 - 2020-08-07 19:03:00 |
| 12 | king1 wrote: apollo11 - 2020-08-07 22:23:00 |
| 13 | king1 wrote: There may well be but nuking that one folder stops it from even starting up. tegretol - 2020-08-07 23:22:00 |
| 14 | I too never asked for edge!! I'm having what seems to be similar problems as the original poster here. Can I say I, (and I suggest lots of others on here) become thoroughly confused when, just as all seems to be going OK, along comes bing- or some other cowboy wildcard- and stuffs everything up. Now I suggest that none of us are idiots, but..like others I suggest I get thoroughly confused and disoriented trying to work out which is my browser., what does bing do, why does it do it, etc. etc. etc. just to get back home to first base. It literally does my head in as I suggest it does to others. I also believe that it's not because we're stupid- but just that there's nowhere you can go to get a simple, sensible, plain understanding of the intricacies and complexities of "the game" such as you can keep up with it/ stay ahead of it. So please, some sympathy while we wade through all this (and thanks for those who are sympathetic, supportive & helpful instead of criticizing while we grapple with this increasingly complex and convoluted can of worms. Edited by johnhb at 3:49 pm, Tue 23 Feb johnhb - 2021-02-23 15:48:00 |
| 15 | Try duckduckgo instead of google. https://duckduckgo.com/ tygertung - 2021-02-23 16:15:00 |
| 16 | A browser is simply a program that lets you browse around the internet. There are many.... You can have multiple different browsers installed and choose only to use the one(s) you prefer. nice_lady - 2021-02-23 16:19:00 |
| 17 | Google is not even a search engine, its an advertising system Edited by loud_37 at 6:21 pm, Tue 23 Feb loud_37 - 2021-02-23 18:21:00 |
| 18 | Sounds like you don't know how to use it. nice_lady - 2021-02-23 18:22:00 |
| 19 | nice_lady wrote:
How can you call it a search engine when they block a lot of info, also the amount of info they get from it to on sell is where they make their money. If you're not paying for a product, you are the product. Edited by loud_37 at 6:52 pm, Tue 23 Feb loud_37 - 2021-02-23 18:51:00 |
| 20 | nzoomed wrote:
Don't use windows then. It's part of the system. swivel - 2021-02-23 19:09:00 |
| 21 | This message was deleted. kittycatkin - 2021-02-23 19:13:00 |
| 22 | loud_37 wrote:
You have proof of this ?
loud_37 wrote:
So what ? That makes it less of a search engine - how ? nice_lady - 2021-02-23 19:51:00 |
| 23 | kittycatkin wrote:
Well done. It IS indeed very easy. nice_lady - 2021-02-23 19:52:00 |
| 24 | This message was deleted. kittycatkin - 2021-02-23 20:25:00 |
| 25 | When I started using the internet, Altavista was the hot ticket for search engines. altavista.digital.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltaVista tygertung - 2021-02-24 08:21:00 |
| 26 | Google Are just some of the many back then. Hubby created a little Widows stand alone program which had many links on it and those were under the category 'Search Engines' - He called it 'Linker' lol. Probably had about 100 quick access links on it. Quite handy - possibly would still be but not all of them would work now as that was back in 2001. nice_lady - 2021-02-24 09:06:00 |
| 27 | This message was deleted. puddleduck00 - 2021-02-25 16:37:00 |
| 28 | puddleduck00 wrote:
Google as a company is an advertising company as is Facebook, i'm not talking about paying them anything, they use your search data to sell to other companies for advertising. loud_37 - 2021-02-25 18:27:00 |
| 29 | puddleduck00 wrote:
I wouldn't pay anyone for that type of work, as its been proven to be all manipulated. Edited by loud_37 at 6:33 pm, Thu 25 Feb loud_37 - 2021-02-25 18:30:00 |
| 30 | This message was deleted. puddleduck00 - 2021-02-26 15:13:00 |
| 31 | This message was deleted. puddleduck00 - 2021-02-26 15:23:00 |
