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Comment by carlycue | Hacker News Reader

Can't wait for Google to add ChatGPT-like features to Chrome and their suite of Web Apps so I can finally ditch Microsoft Edge with it's ChatGPT integration. The UI of Edge is god awful. It has the same issue as Explorer in Windows where Microsoft thinks showing you all UI buttons and other UI elements at once is a great idea. Microsoft can't make compelling consumer facing products to save their life.

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I actually liked Edge and was happy to move away from Chrome. Then they started injecting their content into web pages. And then some shopping feature. I hate seeing the "You can now add extensions from the Chrome..." banner when I'm logged in the Chrome web store. It won't go away even after I closed it multiple times.

I started using Brave.

Remember that firefox exists.

What features are you looking/hoping for in a ChatGPT-like integration with Google web apps?

Tried edge, wasn't pleasant.

such a weird take...ChatGPT is thus far just an incredible demo

you've actually switched browsers to have access to it? why???

It sounds like it's Bing Chat, not ChatGPT. They are fairly different – ChatGPT being fairly mature but heavyweight, and Bing Chat being truly unhinged.

But yeah, Bing Chat is only available in Edge.

Have you actually used Bing Chat? While there are certainly some very funny conversations floating around where it goes off the rails, that isn't the normal behavior: It's pretty good in practice.

To use "the good Bing", you only need to change the user agent of your favorite browser to Edge.

Because for them it's already providing value and it isn't just a demo.

I actually use Edge because I dislike Google having all my data and I dislike one company having control over web.

Also, Edge on Android allows me to block ads.

> I dislike Google having all my data

Now Microsoft has all of your data, is it actually any better?

> I dislike one company having control over web.

Edge is also based on Chromium, developed and controlled by Google

> Edge on Android allows me to block ads.

You could try Brave (also Chromium-based) or Firefox (Gecko-based) with uBlock Origin, both will block ads and tracking

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