Edge sends full URLs of pages visited to Microsoft

#1

Post by semiquaver » Sun, Jul 21, 2019, 1:38 PM UTC

Edge sends full URLs of pages visited to Microsoft
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Re: Edge sends full URLs of pages visited to Microsoft

#2

Post by octosphere » Sun, Jul 21, 2019, 2:05 PM UTC

Which is why I always harden Edge after setting up Windows by disabling SmartScreen

Re: Edge sends full URLs of pages visited to Microsoft

#3

Post by bogwog » Sun, Jul 21, 2019, 2:13 PM UTC

octosphere wrote: post #2

Which is why I always harden Edge after setting up Windows by disabling SmartScreen

or you could just, you know, use Firefox

Re: Edge sends full URLs of pages visited to Microsoft

#4

Post by Insanity » Sun, Jul 21, 2019, 2:13 PM UTC

octosphere wrote: post #2

Which is why I always harden Edge after setting up Windows by disabling SmartScreen

You could just use another browser like Firefox. :)

Re: Edge sends full URLs of pages visited to Microsoft

#5

Post by ahoka » Sun, Jul 21, 2019, 2:16 PM UTC

Insanity wrote: post #4

octosphere wrote: post #2

Which is why I always harden Edge after setting up Windows by disabling SmartScreen

You could just use another browser like Firefox. :)

AFAIK Mozilla does the same.

Re: Edge sends full URLs of pages visited to Microsoft

#6

Post by amluto » Sun, Jul 21, 2019, 2:19 PM UTC

ahoka wrote: post #5

Insanity wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You could just use another browser like Firefox. :)

AFAIK Mozilla does the same.

No, it doesn’t. The equivalent Firefox feature does not reveal your URLs to Mozilla.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-does-phishing-and-m...

Re: Edge sends full URLs of pages visited to Microsoft

#7

Post by ToFab123 » Sun, Jul 21, 2019, 2:19 PM UTC

bogwog wrote: post #3

octosphere wrote: post #2

Which is why I always harden Edge after setting up Windows by disabling SmartScreen

or you could just, you know, use Firefox

True, but nothing beats MS Edge if you have a touch screen and that it a good enough reason for me to stay with Edge.

Re: Edge sends full URLs of pages visited to Microsoft

#8

Post by jchw » Sun, Jul 21, 2019, 2:19 PM UTC

ahoka wrote: post #5

Insanity wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You could just use another browser like Firefox. :)

AFAIK Mozilla does the same.

Mozilla does not send full URLs to a third party. As mentioned in the thread, they use “4-byte URL hash prefixes.”

Documentation: https://developers.google.com/safe-browsing/v4/urls-hashing

(Disclosure: I work for Google but have nothing to do with the safe browsing API.)

Re: Edge sends full URLs of pages visited to Microsoft

#9

Post by reaperducer » Sun, Jul 21, 2019, 2:20 PM UTC

Every time I see people on HN campaigning for Microsoft as some kind of reformed tech company that has seen the errors of its past and turned into a force for good, something like this comes up.

Same old Microsoft. Second verse same as the first.

Re: Edge sends full URLs of pages visited to Microsoft

#10

Post by josho » Sun, Jul 21, 2019, 2:22 PM UTC

I assumed every browser did this as a part of their safe browsing features. Or is this different somehow?