Which is faster?
Which is more secure?
Which is more reliable?
You will be surprised at the results.
Firstly, let's talk about security. That is the real reason that people started to doubt Microsoft in the early 00's, because people got viruses on PCs and not on Macs and the reputation became solidified. Microsoft = unreliable and insecure.
The truth is though, that if you kept your PC up-to-date (yes we all hate doing updates) then you would have been at not greater risk on a PC over a Mac or Linux browser.
There is also the point that no one had a Mac in the early 2000s so there was no point making a virus. It has to be said that most scammers try and make money through phishing or scamming now anyway, and that makes the system you are on irrelevant, doesn't it?
Well no, it doesn't actually. The one main rule is that if you want to be secure on the Internet you are far better off with Microsoft than you are with Google or Apple, as they both use the same Google security databases, and they do not seem to do much anymore.
When Google Chrome first came in then you could get a site locked down pretty quickly when people started reporting it from various parts of the globe. Nowadays, half of the phishing sites run from Google Firebase servers or Amazon AWS.
This means that Google Chrome will not mark the site as bad no matter what happens, really they won't!
Let's have a look at the most brain-numbingly obvious scammer sites from Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome.
Firstly, Brexit Millionaire. This site is soo stoopid it is actually ridiculous. It promises to make you thousands on your first day with an investment of $250 USD, which is impossible.
So on the Chrome machine, we see:
So the site appears fine. you can enter your details and await offshore, unregulated scammer brokers to phone up and defraud you. Why would Google leave this site open like this on the World's most popular browser?
What about on Microsoft Edge:
it is completely blocked. Unless you specifically click twice in spite of two warning messages telling you that this site is fraudulent, you are completely safe. OK.
What about Bitcoin Up?
This is another ridiculous scam using the same tactics and same scammers. But it is an obvious scam even to those with concussion. So let's take a look on Microsoft edge:
Once again, it is completely blocked. Do not use this site at any costs! is the message we receive, whereas on Google Chrome:
It is completely open and ready to receive your details and take a deposit.
So what is going on?
Well the picture becomes a lot clearer when you start searching for these sites on the Google search engine:
Whereas on Ecosia powered by Microsoft:
There are no ads, even though the sites are still found.
And so the majority of the sites returned in Google search that are pointing at Bitcoin Up are advertising with Google, and so Google are taking part of the profits of the scammers stealing from people. This explains a lot. it explains why they do not want to block any of these site, the scammers might start advertising on DuckDuckGo or something. They need to be protected and ranked in order to protect Google's scam income.
And so we move on to the Google phishing server issue.
If one of these sites is based on a Google Firebox server then Google are simply unable to blacklist it. They cannot blacklist their own server or the customer will complain and they will lose the business.
So all scammers have to do is put their phishing site in an inobvious place in the URL and they can link to it from phishing spam and defraud people once they have gained access to their Office 365 account or AppleID via their phishing site.
In performance we actually see that Chrome is slightly ahead of Microsoft Ede:
With an approximate 1.77% difference in speed on our site.
Obviously reliability it difficult to measure as plug-ins and site issues account for most of the issues that many users see, but all-in-all, which do you think is safer for your family and friends?