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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5 Why does internet explorer have such a bad reputation with tech-savvy people? Average users seem to have no problem with it.
gpt
Here's just a few of the more common reasons.

1) It's had a history of security issues over the years resulting in people getting infected with viruses. Since microsoft typically only issues updates once a month unless something is considered seriously bad, Patch Tuesday might result in Exploit Wednesday when evil hackers know of a bug that wasn't fixed in a month's updates.

2) A lot of businesses invested in ActiveX applications for their internal stuff assuming Internet Explorer would be running them. This caused a number of problems where updates to IE would result in these applications breaking, plus Microsoft was pulling ActiveX support entirely over time. This is good from a security standpoint but would break so many applications. The options are to update the application (very expensive to completely uproot the user facing portion of it) or *not* update IE. Due to item #1 not updating IE is a major risk when you take it out into the public internet.

3) There's been a lot of tribalism on the internet about browsers. Web browsers making up their own standards and then web sites implementing them to the detriment of other browsers was (and honestly, still is) a problem and IE was pretty bad about it in the early days.

While things have improved dramatically, IE has a stain on its reputation.