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Microsoft Edge is trying to forcefully get your Chrome tabs again
Microsoft has a new trick to try and get Chrome users over to Edge.
My colleague Richard Lawler noticed that Edge started automatically on his PC last week at boot and offered up a new prompt to “enhance your browsing experience.” The pop-up has a “bring over your data from other browsers regularly” option ticked by default, and encourages people to confirm and continue with a big blue button. “This is a notification giving people the choice to import data from other browsers,” explains Microsoft spokesperson Caitlin Roulston. So Microsoft clearly isn’t bothered that it’s automatically starting up Edge on people’s PC and then trying to trick them into importing their Chrome data.
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