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mehua
Nov 15, 2021Microsoft
Introducing Buy now, pay later in Microsoft Edge
“Buy now, pay later,” or BNPL, lets shoppers break their purchases into equal installment payments, often interest-free, which can allow shoppers to get their purchase upfront, instead of having to w...
amsprich
Nov 17, 2021Iron Contributor
mehua Also made an account just to reply. I love the new Edge and I've been using it since it came out. Seriously, don't support this. No one needs this. BNPL is just an enabler for people who have a problem. No one should finance online purchases that small. This kind of functionality should definitely, 100%, not be in any browser ever. Please don't add to the debt problems people already have.
- Jeff MesserNov 26, 2021Brass Contributor100%. Between actions like this from the Edge team and the recent active forcing of users into Edge as the default browser, I am starting to get the yuck old Microsoft feels. And this is coming from someone who has generally appreciated the Microsoft of the past several years and have enjoyed Windows 10 and 11, and am a regular Edge user! If this makes it to standard production builds I'll likely have to start switching to something else and encourage others to do the same. Keep Edge fast and clean with OPTIONAL additions available. This is a very bad look for the company, and it needs to stop.