That’s the point though, isn’t it? They clearly don’t want such customers.

The saddest part is when you finally convince a sizable part of your friends to use a more private messaging app, but then they slowly move back to whatsapp within a few months.

When they announced they would make their codebase proprietary it was definitely a turning point. In hindsight, you can clearly see a shift in their way of doing things from that point on.

Tell that to the microsoft-edge URIs scattered all over the system

The final straw for me was when Windows started to ignore the default browser setting and open some links in Edge exclusively. Someone made a program to fix that, but Windows updates broke it to the point that the developer gave up on it.

My balls shrivelled reading that