Meh. I disabled it in the registry
Edge or the slop? I’m not really a Windows guy.
Get ready for:
clicks hyperlink
Entire page is scraped and sent to copilot LLM to be processed. This causes a 1.5 second delay
Then after you get passed the cookies popup and promo popup, the whole page shifts and gets injected with copilot summarizations right as you were about to click on something else.
Work forces me to use edge, this’ll be fun
Work forces me to use edge, this’ll be fun
Those absolute monsters.
“Seriuosly unpopular” and the base for that claim is a reddit post with 300 upvotes. Don’t get me wrong, fuck microslop and edge, but this title could not be more sensationalistic.
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Remaining it to CoPilot Browser in 3…2…
or, just copilot
Imagine using Edge when other browsers exist.
I use it on my work PC and I have to admit that it’s not that bad…
“What is my purpose?” “You download Firefox”
winget install -e --id Mozilla.FirefoxI actually have Firefox also installed on that machine, but some (internal) sites work better in Edge, so I mostly use Edge on that PC.
Yeah, same.
It’s not terrible, but it feels like it’s slowly becoming worse as they add new garbage. And especially if they start forcing a bunch of AI shit I’m out.
But I think a lot of people brush it off outright without really using it. Or, because it’s Lemmy, anything that’s not linux = bad.
Actually Edge prior to this was a fine browser. Like a lightweight chrome. It was actually just good enough to not really make you want to install a new browser unless it was your daily driver personal PC.
When do they rename Edge to Copilot Explorer. :)
Internet Copilot
Copilot Firefox Downloader
There was almost no reason to use Edge to begin with not much changes here.
If it gets too bad, I suppose everyone still forced to use SlopilotOS for whatever reason will have to use Powershell to download Firefox. That is, until the SlopilotShell rebrand comes along.
Until they introduce Copilot in Powershell so that when you try do D/L another browser, it will chime in and explain you that you should first give a serious try to EdgePilot because it’s so much better and you won’t be disappointed! Here: I D/L its premium version instead of FF as you were trying to do, and I give you one month for free! \o/.
Ironfox, Cromite, Librewolf, Ungoogled Chromium, Orion, so many much better options nowadays.
Edge is built on Chromium
But that doesn’t mean Edge IS Chromium. Or that chromium is bad because of that.
Now when people try to use Bing Copilot app to download a normal web browser, it can talk them out of it while introducing them to all the other Copilots and their apps
Is that before or after copilot attempts to talk them into offing themselves?
That’s if they say “no” after the first pitch.
I’m really loving this new Microslop name.
Also… looks like someone bought www.microslop.com and redirected to their own site: https://www.philipncohen.com/
Ugh, that sucks. That domain could’ve been put to good satirical use.
Hopefully they’re just setting that up and in the meantime did this.
I would have bought it for that purpose if it was available.
“Sir, a second slop has hit production”
Who the fuck even uses Edge?
I used it once to download Firefox.
I used it today to add a signature to a PDF.
You will be judged harshly. Next time just use an install file on a USB, you know, like someone who isn’t a shit eating corporate shill greedily guzzling the pendulous dong of microsoft, you piece of shit. I hate you and you deserve to be hated. Do better. Fuck.
/s, just in case…
I needed that /s
Enterprises
Required to use edge by work.
Unfortunately, my workplace stuck on Windows due to specific software we utilize. We’re not bound to any browsers tho. I find it cool that our sysadmins use only Firefox. (Maybe not anymore with how Mozilla began to push AI in their browser.)
Yeah we are too. But for some strange reason the policy I deleted from my account appears to have been deleted from my account. Goodness knows how that happened.
It’s so stupid though we have some SAP modules that actually require Internet Explorer because they’re super duper old and have never been updated. So there are quite a few users that don’t actually have to follow that policy.
Hey now, you’ve got to use something to download Firefox on a brand new windows install.
I didn’t used to be this guy, but… LINUX.
Hey now, you’ve got to use something to download
Firefoxa Linux ISO on a brand new windows install.There is gateway software out there, folks!
Don’t jump off the deep end like this degenerate…
I’m running distro installs on perfectly set-up rigs and customizing the bios just to feel normal. I installed Wine and Proton on my Pebble just because I could. The other day I blew a guy so that I could talk to him about start-up efficiency and convince him to take an Arch boot drive from me that he promised to install on his 2008 dell mini PC. I told him it would run Skyrim!
Learn from my mistakes. Linux… not even once.
Sucking data out of an ethernet cable isn’t normal. But on Linux it is.
But seriously, did it run?
“We must negate the machines-that-think. Humans must set their own guidelines. This is not something machines can do. Reasoning depends upon programming, not on hardware, and we are the ultimate program! Our Jihad is a “dump program.” We dump the things which destroy us as humans!”
How will this one be called? Also Copilot? Slopilot?
Edge Copilot 365
They tack 365 on every product for no reason.
Microsoft 365 Copilot Edge Pro Express Home Edition with Teams for Friends and Family 2027.
People will still use it once to download another browser.
winget install Mozilla.Firefox winget install Google.Chromecurl -L -o ubuntu.iso https://releases.ubuntu.com/22.04/ubuntu-22.04.4-desktop-amd64.iso
Yeah. This is better.
Use curl.exe otherwise you might invoke the default powershell alias curl which has different syntax (just learned of this here somewhere some time ago in a meme)
A version of Ubuntu that’s nearly 4 years old?
The link is no longer working. I just needed a direct link to make the point that’s it. Recent versions have buttons to download with script.
I have a USB-bootable thumbdrive with Ubuntu 24 on it. Two home systems down, two to go.
My chief concern is that this wave of enshitifiation will eventually make it to Microsoft’s security support. Historically, at least recently, the weekly updates and response to critical vulnerabilities and virus scanning have been pretty good. But now that they’re attacking their own flagship products - Office and Windows itself - I think it’s only a matter of time before they fumble Windows security in a big way.
I’ll also predict that Non-pro Windows will eventually be “free” (as in beer), but will be useless without a live internet connection and cloud services. So now really is the time to switch. IMO, all the money points in that direction.
My chief concern is that this wave of enshitifiation will eventually make it to Microsoft’s security support.
That and their general quality control. It’s already been happening. Their updates and new products have been having some serious issues with a lot more frequency over the last year. At least that’s the strong impression I have. Oh, here’s an article also calling this out: https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/08/microsoft_lacks_quality_control/ - apparently they may have started going down this path over a decade ago, but it seems to have accelerated since they started using Gen AI.
Newest post from Cory Doctorow is about exactly this https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/1000x-liability/#graceful-failure-modes
Thanks! I saw this linked on Mastodon but haven’t read it yet.
Dude, that was a GOOD read. It’s been a growing problem, before AI and entirely due to the infinite growth forced on companies by shareholder value.
I code, usually for utility or personal projects. I’m surprised how many software devs have shit code. It’s not that their code doesn’t work, they wouldn’t have a job without it. No, it works well for now, until it needs to be maintained or updated, usually after the sloppy author is gone, and then it’s a shit show. Suddenly all the corners the last guy cut need to be added in somehow, with the whole thing expanded to scope, and the code becomes unworkable, at worst, requiring a complete rewrite, or at best turns into spaghetti code that leads to the shit we have in our aging early adopters.
My biggest fear, and one that is not talked about in the article, is that we won’t have any asbestos removers in the future. Generative AI is being fed it’s own excrement and that’s being leveraged as working code to new coders. When this really becomes a liability we won’t have many left that can fix or figure out the fix cause it will have obfuscated all the usable info.
Out of curiosity, why does everyone always go for Ubuntu in posts like this? I’ve always hated that distro; all my machines run Fedora instead. IMO Fedora with KDE is way better than Ubuntu with Gnome in terms of usability for people switching over from Windows, but maybe I’m just biased since I’m already super familiar with Linux
I run Zorin OS 18 on my desktop. I just commented Ubuntu since more people would understand the comments.
Also, for Surface tablets, I believe Ubuntu is the best option for touchscreen support.
Fair enough, thanks for responding
It took me way more than a decade of using Ubuntu before I got to a point of preferring Fedora, in spite of frequent distro hopping in periods when I was bored.
I think Fedora has gotten better in the last few years, but for me it also feels a bit more cold and unwelcoming maybe? Dunno, but I was always happy with Ubuntu until some really obscure dependencies got into conflict and I had to change things up. Canonical might not be the absolute best, but neither are Red Hat.
Ubuntu doesn’t respect the spirit of free open-source software. They keep jamming stuff into their distro to increase their control. There are plenty of alternatives. (E.g. Debian, OpenSUSE, Fedora or Mint for general-purpose distros.)
I refuse to use or recommend American distros.
I can confirm Debian 13 works great for newbies.
It’ll just be called Microsoft Copilot.
None of you are in an abusive relationship with the cruel mistress that is Windows and her accursed family and it shows.
Personally I’m excited for when they rerelease regedit as Windows Copilot, MFS as (Co)Pilot, and Purble Place as Copilot Kids Demo.
There was an idea mooted over on Mastodon, that Flight Sim will be renamed Copilot Copilot. Rolls off the tongue.
There was an idea tooted over on Mastodon
with Teams for Friends and Family
OMFG I’m crying
& Knuckles
Featuring Dante From The Devil May Cry Series
New Funky Mode
Gotta go… In a different direction?
Up and down and all around
You forgot the (classic)
Sounds like it comes with a free trial of Norton.
Slodge?
Microsoft Copilot App (zero indication it’s web)
So just like M365 Copilot (actual name for the office app).
Internet Copilot One X.
Slo-pilot or Slop-a-lot works for me.
Explorer. Always has been.
