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I always use edge whenever I'm making a public presentation with a computer I use. Simply because I never use it. Then autocomplete won't embarrass me if we look something up.
Why dont use any other browser, like vivaldi, brave, librewolf, ungoogled chromium, that are not made by data hungery big tech like Microsoft.
Those are all solid options, so you might be tempted to use them. I keep a windows partition on case I need it for something, but I'm never tempted to use it unless I absolutely have to.
I've got an SSD with windows 11 on it..
It's been sitting for about a year.
Many of those have shady Histories and CEOs. Many are seemingly made by normal companies, but those are owned by Chinese organizations. The only real alternatives would be Librewolf/FF and Degoogled Chromium. That would be a matter of preference, mostly. And you don't even have to use Librewolf, you could just use a seperate, clean profile in FF. Launch it with
firefox -profilemanageror on about:profiles, @dukeofdummies@lemmy.worldOr just launch second profile... Firefox / chrome(ium) supports it. No need to use different browser.
Incognito/Private mode?