You can no longer bypass  microsoft-edge:// links using apps like EdgeDeflector
When I see stories like this, I think about what it must be like to be an engineer on the windows team. You get in, make your coffee in a fancy Microsoft-branded cup, and then a PM gives you the “actively shit on our customers” ticket. Presumably the engineers on the windows team are either in golden handcuffs, or actually derive sadistic pleasure from making the world worse for users, and making the field of software engineering less trustworthy.<p>Are there other fields so thoroughly invested in making the world a worse place to be a consumer? Why is big tech so obsessed with torching their long-term reputation in exchange for a few usage share points in the short term? How do engineers sleep at night, knowing their role is to be a malignant, user-hostile, value-destroying force in the world?