Edge automatically sends images you view online to Microsoft by default
Edge automatically sends images you view online to Microsoft by default
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Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft, here is how to disable that
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- View CP with Edge.
- Report Microsoft to the authorities.
- ???
- Profit?
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"Never enhance images for these sites:"
Shares list of sites to never enhance images for with Microsoft
Parkour!
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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.
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It's Microsoft's browser hopefully this shouldn't be a shock to anyone.
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Microsoft just don't know how not to be assholes it seems.
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Never did. I am reminded of the whole "Embrace, extend, and extinguish" tactic they use(d).
It's pretty brutal.
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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.
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Wow. You'd have to be either crazy or ignorant to still want to use Edge.
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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.
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It started as the no frills chrome, and slowly descended into madness
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It's unbelievable what Microsoft can get away with in Edge...
Relevant Hacker News discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36295364
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Edge has always been terrifying to me, the recommended sharing options are crazy and have been since the start
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wow
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Easy fix: use Firefox or ungoogled Chromium instead of Edge.
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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. :)
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.
Get on linux mint. There are dozens of us!
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.
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