I recently discovered that you can get Microsoft Edge for Linux (🤢🤮) and am curious… does anyone here use Edge for Linux, or have you ever? What was your reasoning for using it?
EDIT: Well, you all have provided some interesting perspectives I hadn’t ever considered. Including one which means I’ll have to install Edge, so… thanks, I guess. 😂
I’ve used it just to access Bing Chat, which has become my go to AI chatbot for a couple of reasons: 1) you theoretically get access to gpt 4 without paying 20 dollars a month, 2) it cites it’s sources, and 3) it can create images via DALLE from within the chat (which is handy, you can chat with the AI to help you think of an image prompt, the just say “ok make an image based on that description”). Other then that, i use Firefox at home. At work our choices are chrome or edge, so I use edge because of bing chat and I kind of like the layout better. It feels like choosing between buying something from Amazon or Walmart, which terrible corporation do I hate more in a given moment.
FYI you can use Bing AI in Firefox by spoofing the user-agent header
I don’t know why this is funny to me but the fact it’s AI being accessed and it can be spoofed with the UA header 🤣
if they wanted to employ full browser fingerprinting they could
There’s a Bing chat extension for Firefox and Chrome. I haven’t tried the image stuff but I assume it would work just the same. I think it’s a 100% artificial antifeature that it “requires” Edge.