This Is Why So Many People Hate Microsoft Edge – SlashGear

Many browsers are there to make money from you. With a few exceptions, whatever you’re using is probably tracking your actions, gathering information on you, and using it to target ads at you or sell alongside millions of other people’s information to folks who enjoy analyzing data. While this is sort of accepted or ignored, Microsoft may have crossed the line a little when it launched a non-information-based money-making feature.

Microsoft partnered with Zip, a company that offers pay-in installment plans, and implemented a “buy now” feature in their browser which would allow users to quickly purchase products. The users were also offered a buy now, pay later option that many people saw as potentially predatory. There is a suggestion that the schemes encourage compulsive shopping, and may get people into more debt than they can manage. The harsh penalties such schemes have for missed payments have also been criticized. 

Others drew parallels with how Internet Explorer went downhill. Either way, it’s more bad PR for a browser many people aren’t particularly fond of in the first place. Considering barely anyone uses it, it’s actually quite astonishing how long the list of Microsoft Edge-related criticisms is. There’s a suggestion that Microsoft is packing in so many half-baked features that it’s essentially just asking for bugs and security problems further down the line. As things stand, it isn’t actually that bad a browser. But there are far better options available, and Microsoft has made Edge far too easy to hate.