The dark defaults of Microsoft Edge

Post by TheRealDunkirk » Sun, Mar 19, 2023, 12:03 AM UTC

concinds wrote: post #250

8ytecoder wrote: post #231

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I work for a pretty large financial corporation. They sent out the IT roadmap for the next year and in it was casually mentioned that they expect Macs to be the dominant platform in the next five years. Our current mac usage is <15% and as a result support is an afterthought with a very frustrating experience. For them to say that and push for this change in an industry that very strongly favours Windows is the clear…

macOS now has 30% market share in the US. Surprised me. https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/united-st...

Post by shoozza » Sun, Mar 19, 2023, 12:24 AM UTC

lapcat wrote: post #80

From 2020, "Web Browser Privacy: What Do Browsers Say When They Phone Home?" https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf > We find that the browsers split into three distinct groups from this privacy perspective. In the first (most private) group lies Brave, in the second Chrome, Firefox and Safari and in the third (least private) group lie Edge and Yandex.

Post by CamperBob2 » Sun, Mar 19, 2023, 12:26 AM UTC

xattt wrote: post #308

CamperBob2 wrote: post #271

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"Hey Telescreen, reorder trash bags and look up recipes for risotto." Huxley's extrapolations were much more on-target than Orwell's. He realized people would line up to buy things that Orwell assumed would have to be imposed at gunpoint.

From ChatGPT using the prompt of a description of someone ordering household items from a voice assistant in the style of 1984: As the clock struck 10 in the morning, Winston Smith approached the telescreen in his small apartment, where his voice assistant, known as "Big Alexa," awaited his commands. "Order household items," Winston spoke into the device, his voice barely above a whisper. "Confirmed," the cold, metal…

Post by binarycrusader » Sun, Mar 19, 2023, 12:34 AM UTC

ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #36

justinclift wrote: post #21

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. Holy shit. :( 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 ove…

Chrome does the same thing for textboxes if you use enhanced spell checking. >Enhanced spell check Uses the same spell checker that’s used in Google search. Text you type in the browser is sent to Google.

Post by jonas-w » Sun, Mar 19, 2023, 12:46 AM UTC

pavel_lishin wrote: post #104

Nextgrid wrote: post #94

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The difference is that Apple, at least until Catalina/Big Sur/Ventura, had good taste . They force you into their workflows or design conventions, but they were generally good or at least bearable. Whatever good taste Microsoft had, it evaporated shortly after the release of Windows 7.

OS X is slowly backsliding, too. It's not as bad as showing literal advertisements in the OS, but they're also trying to unify their mobile and laptop/desktop experiences, and it results in a worse experience on my laptop. I think I'm about two OSX upgrades away from switching to a *nix OS as my daily driver, though I don't know what I'll do for some niche software like Clip Studio Paint.