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Microsoft dangles $1 million prizes and Mercedes-AMG cars inside Edge as persistent pop-ups potentially spark fresh "bribery" backlash.

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[–] crandlecan@mander.xyz 35 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Let me guess... Existing users are excluded from participating? Cause I ain't got no pop up banner anywhere. Or is cause I'm European?

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You're not as much excluded as not included (in the shortlist. Are you a relative to gates?).

[–] crandlecan@mander.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

Would I be here with a free account if I were? ✌️

[–] beep@piefed.world -3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Checkout Heluim Browser (GitHub) instead, but keep in mind that they don't have auto-update. But you can add their windows GitHub repo to your RSS reader to be alerted of any new updates: https://github.com/imputnet/helium-windows/releases.atom

Edit 1:.... Why am I being downvoted?

[–] crandlecan@mander.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It looks like they have automatic updates by now

[–] beep@piefed.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are you sure?

I downloaded it 2 weeks ago and it had no auto updates warning.

[–] crandlecan@mander.xyz 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I went with custom setup and all the options were there

[–] crandlecan@mander.xyz 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I dunno? You had my upvote but I didn't follow the link. No auto update. RSS reader? :) The typo?

I'll now go give it a peek 😉