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alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgM to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years ago

Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing

www.theverge.com

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Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing

www.theverge.com

alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgM to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years ago
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Microsoft says it’s investigating reports of an Edge privacy issue.
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  • Hirom@beehaw.org
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    The longer part of the windows install process is not the installation. It’s removing all the pre-installed bloatware, removing or disabling all the telemetry and other undesired features that are on by default.

    • ichbinjasokreativ@beehaw.org
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      The start menu entries are stored in an encrypted file somewhere beneath a thousand different folders. But its possible to copy a cleaned start menu file and paste it in the correct directory in the default user folder to give new users an ad-free start menu.

    • people_are_cute@lemmy.sdf.org
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      Just pirate LTSC.

      • teft@startrek.website
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        Just run Linux.

        • Exec@pawb.social
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          If your hardware lets you

          • theolodger@feddit.uk
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            Run a distro of linux which is less resource intensive than windows?

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              Nah, one specific hardware where its manufacturer hasn’t written a Linux driver and no one bothered to reverse engineer

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            Don’t buy shitty hardware.

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    Doesn’t Edge send all urls you visit to Microsoft through browser.events.data.msn.com? Microsoft has been tracking every site you visit since the start.

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    I am shocked that anything regarding Microsoft and windows contains spyware.

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    Well no shit.

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    How surprising

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    Inverse surprised pikachu

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    What a weird way to spell “intentionally designed to track everything you do”

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