Edge users aren’t happy about Microsoft’s built-in ‘buy now, pay later’ tool
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is tacking on a buy now, pay later" extension to Edge that prompts users to use short-term financing service Zip (formerly QuadPay) when making a purchase on the browser.
The option to sign up and use Zip will appear on checkout pages
The company introduced the service earlier this month, and now some users are reportedly seeing it integrated into their browsers after updating to Edge version 96, as noted by Ars Technica. The option to sign up and use Zip will be displayed on checkout pages, appearing in the same area where you'd enter your credit card number on Edge (or access a previously used one), and will sometimes be ingrained in the checkout page itself. Zip will pop up when Edge detects that your purchase costs...