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I had Edge forced on me a number of times and had to change a setting to prevent it from happening.

The most recent case in point, I updated my wife's Outlook to the latest version and it started opening all links in Edge. I had to Google it and found that Microsoft forced this change on everybody and I needed to tweak a setting.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/3/23709297/microsoft-edge-fo...

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It's not forced if there's a setting to disable. "Reset my default" would be more accurate.

That is literally forcing edge on people.. it is ignoring their choice, and forcing them to use edge or change the desired browsers.

It is not forcing them to use it (mostly) but it is forcing edge on them in a dark pattern which needs to be called out.

Maybe not forced, but definitely hostile

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