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Microsoft has always been browser stupid and arrogant.

From the moment Bill Gates decided to force Internet Exploder on the

world, until they threw in the towel admitting Chrome was better than
anything they could produce, Microsoft has been browser
intelligence bankrupt.

To this day they have to act all niggerish every time they make some
senseless useless change that nobody wants or cares about, with a popup
page that nobody reads.

Microsoft refuses to correctly grasp the purpose of a browser. The
purpose of a browser is to cleanly, safely, reliably and privately access publicly accessible information of varying types. The browser is a
gateway to information and entertainment. "IT" is not the entertainment.

Microsoft does not focus on this. Instead, they try and make the browser
a distraction by reducing the viewing footprint with "features" around the border edges. They also do their best to hide unwanted operational
behaviors, and more alarmingly, prevent you from controlling your privacy
by obfuscating or hiding the controls for them.

So picture this. During a corporate Zoom session, a presenter clicked on
a link on his desktop. Microsoft Edge opens up, but the link he wants is buried behind a group of pages previously opened in google Chrome.

Among those pages is Amazon, ebay, Ashley Madison, Pornhub, XHamster and a tranny porn site. Edge sucked it all in as soon as he opened a link
because his default browser was set to Edge. No doubt he had some
explaining to do on the way out the door to his next job.

There are several ways to handle this. The default browser can be changed
to something else, but a random corporate domain policy may change it back
to Edge during the next login or update. It may also even prevent you
from changing it.

To fix this rogue behavior, launch Edge on your Windows machine, type "edge://settings/profiles/importBrowsingData" in the address bar and hit
the enter button.

Select "Import browser data from Google Chrome on each launch"

"Do you want to turn off importing browser data from other browsers?"

"Choose confirm to stop Microsoft Edge from importing browser data from
other browsers."

"This will clear browsing data from Microsoft Edge that were imported from other browsers across all your synced devices signed in to gatesblowsgoats@outlook.com."

Click "Confirm". The setting should now be off.

Caution, going back in to check will turn it back on.

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