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Did you know that out-of-the-box, Edge will transmit the content of
your text boxes on web pages to the Microsoft Editor service for the
purpose of grammatical suggestions? I have no idea how this concept
got past legal but hey, it’s on by default now.
At what point are some of the major government legal departments actually going to step up and sort this shit out?
It is so, so, so, so, so far past overdue. Yet nothing. :(
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I’ve seen those screenshots too, I spent hours googling for this. But that setting is not available on my Windows. Maybe a pro vs home thing? I’m on the latest version. I don’t believe that this is by accident, I think MS decided that I’m in some customer segment that’s not allowed to not know that Jimmy Fallon might be depressed. And even then, I can’t get the widgets feature, a pretty decent idea, without the news.…
I have Win11 Pro and it really is just those three clicks.
It’s like you book a hotel room and the TV is on Fox News and you can’t turn the TV off. You ask around but everybody says that they can turn it off just fine, must be you. Turns out that they’re all in the executive suite and they also have Fox News on the TV, turned on by default when they enter the room, but for them the hotel didn’t hide the remote.
That is, some UI widgets will still open Edge even if you change the default.
There used to be an awesome open source project called EdgeDeflector that would fix that. Microsoft got wise to it and found a way to neutralize it, which killed the project. https://github.com/da2x/EdgeDeflector
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It's just three clicks to disable widgets, "Right click taskbar, select taskbar settings, click on slider to turn widgets off".
That does not disable widgets. That only hides the button that toggles it. (Edit 29 minutes after, because I can't seem to post anymore:) It still runs its webview in the background and can be toggled with the keyboard shortcut, Win+W, even if the button is hidden. In order to fully disable it you need a Group Policy or a registry hack.
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Except I can’t ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35208271 ). Also I don’t understand why “not a core moneymaker” implies “this must be crap-maximized”.
>Except I can’t Maybe it's a Win Pro edition thing and not on HOme. >Also I don’t understand why “not a core moneymaker” implies “this must be crap-maximized”. What you don't understand is irelevant to the Microsoft board meetings where they show ad-revenue go up, because money is the only thing they understand, user experience be dammed. What are those users gonna do, install Ubuntu? /s
> Apple doesn’t try to make revenue from Safari because they don’t need to. Apart from the small matter of Google paying Apple $15bn to be the default search engine in Safari.
Nobody would criticize Microsoft if they did the same with Edge and left it at that .
While I'm sure that the shareholder love this, from the outside it looks like that last desperate acts from a company try to avoid bankruptcy.
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>Except I can’t Maybe it's a Win Pro edition thing and not on HOme. >Also I don’t understand why “not a core moneymaker” implies “this must be crap-maximized”. What you don't understand is irelevant to the Microsoft board meetings where they show ad-revenue go up, because money is the only thing they understand, user experience be dammed. What are those users gonna do, install Ubuntu? /s
Buy chromebooks most likely
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Except I can’t ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35208271 ). Also I don’t understand why “not a core moneymaker” implies “this must be crap-maximized”.
>Except I can’t Maybe it's a Win Pro edition thing and not on HOme. >Also I don’t understand why “not a core moneymaker” implies “this must be crap-maximized”. What you don't understand is irelevant to the Microsoft board meetings where they show ad-revenue go up, because money is the only thing they understand, user experience be dammed. What are those users gonna do, install Ubuntu? /s
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Buy chromebooks most likely
I've never seen chromebooks in continental Europe though. Maybe it's an AMerican & UK thing.