Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft, here is how to disable that
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Microsoft Edge has many convenient features to improve your browsing experience. However, some of those features raise privacy concerns. One, for example, sends images you view directly to Microsoft.
  • altz3r0@beehaw.orgEnglish
    16·
    2 years ago

    If you think Edge is a bust, I got news for you: if you are using Windows, pretty much everything spies on you now days. :)

    • chaorace@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      16·
      2 years ago

      Every year that goes by, the less my colleagues give funny looks when I talk about being a Linux user. These days it’s more often envy – my default browser never changes, I can put my start menu wherever I like, my hard-drive never spontaneously encrypts itself, my user account never deletes and replaces itself with an always-online doppleganger. These statements are somehow impressive brags and that amuses me greatly.

    • reka@beehaw.orgEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      To anyone who used Linux once upon a time and got scared off - try it again. Nowadays so much works without any config, driver support is so much better and, at least with my last year using Fedora, it’s incredibly stable.

      And if you get stuck, ChatGPT is so good at helping you through the experience. Also, IMO, once you spend a week or so to get used to Gnome desktop environment it’s better than both windows and macos.

      • interolivary@beehaw.orgEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        I really wouldn’t tell anyone to rely on ChatGPT for technical support. It’s fine if you already sort of know what you’re doing, but it has a tendency to “lie” very convincingly and come up with either broken or even potentially harmful solutions

  • scheissberg@feddit.deEnglish
    9·
    2 years ago

    “Never enhance images for these sites:”

    Shares list of sites to never enhance images for with Microsoft

    Parkour!

    • Feydaikin@beehaw.orgEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      Never did. I am reminded of the whole “Embrace, extend, and extinguish” tactic they use(d).

      It’s pretty brutal.

      • reka@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Well, in MS’s unwarranted defence, they’ve moved strategically well away from this under current leadership which has been much more profitable for them. The current strategy is to get into every single technology vertical, become a dependency for every single other company.

  • honk@feddit.deEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    I shouldn’t have to be a lucky mf that stumbles upon an article by coincidence that explains how to configure his web browser to not send pictures I look at across the atlantic ocean without my knowledge. WTF is going on.

    • ramskulls@beehaw.orgEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

      I adopted Edge when it started out as a more lightweight Chrome. After that I eventually just got used to it, like a frog being slow-cooked? And now I find it hard to leave, even though it’s gotten more and more bloated. Edge has a really nice text to speech feature with natural voices that I use a lot. I’ve read a lot of books in the two years I’ve been using edge. If I could find an alternative with that feature that was also cross-platform I would gladly switch in a heartbeat.

    • aMalayali@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Edge is/was(have read that windows fixed some defender issue) slightly faster than firefox.

        • aMalayali@beehaw.org
          1·
          2 years ago

          I’ve used Chrome(Haven’t yet tried Ungoogled Chromium on PC. Have used Bromite in the past). It didn’t seem much faster.

          Chrome generally felt faster on google services like Meet tho.

          • realslef@fedia.io
            1·
            2 years ago

            Not much faster, no. Still the same core, just fewer compulsory extensions like this Snoopy one.

    • ResidualBit@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      I think it is a lot of the latter at this point, tbh. Non tech-savvy folks that don’t even think about the browser software at all, let alone know there are other options or seek them out.

  • benad@beehaw.orgEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    It’s only in the Canary version for now.

    Although the feature sounds exciting, recent Microsoft Edge Canary updates have provided more information on how image enhancement works.

    • nulldev@lemmy.vepta.orgOPEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      IDK about that, there are many claims from users of it being available on stable. I believe it’s another one of those A-B test things so it’s only available for a subset of stable users.

  • zauberin@beehaw.orgEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Edge has always been terrifying to me, the recommended sharing options are crazy and have been since the start