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My tap water (Denver area, Colorado, USA) is pretty good. My fridge has a filter and cold water is tastier, so I end up with cold, filtered water (as filtered as can be from some off-brand filter I got online).
But the coffee maker is next to the kitchen sink and I happily use that. Sometimes I'll fill a glass from the bathroom faucet and it hits the spot. Neither are filtered, and I don't think twice about it.
Does your fridge work without the filter? Mine fuckin' doesn't.
I have a GE or Whirlpool, can't remember, but it also didn't work without it. I did some research and I think they were forced to provide, free of charge, an inline bypass. I got it from their website because it stopped dispensing water when I needed to replace the filter after what felt like a very short amount of time, and I could only use their filter. Basically, their filters have RFID chips, and so the fridge wouldn't work without it, but you can have them send you, for free, a bypass, which basically connects the tubing and puts the RFID in place.
So I got that, and picked up an in-line filter that is now in the basement, that is just between a valve off a water line and the fridge, was a pretty easy install, and the filter supposedly lasts much longer than the fridge one.