Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
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Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
#2It's such a dumb feature too, i don't think there's a single person who wants all the photos on the web "enhanced" it's adding features for the sake of adding features. What people actually want from edge is ads and tabloids not being plastered everywhere, but apparently that's asking too much.
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
#3It's such a dumb feature too, i don't think there's a single person who wants all the photos on the web "enhanced" it's adding features for the sake of adding features. What people actually want from edge is ads and tabloids not being plastered everywhere, but apparently that's asking too much.
I simply already dislike it because this means when creating a website you can't even rely anymore on the browser showing the image you as website designer intended.
What if I'm deliberately showing a comparison of compression artifacts, or a screenshot of bad vs good game textures, or comparing photos of different cameras? Now the browser will alter the intended good vs bad quality comparison.
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
#4This is just bananas to me that a browser would perform "super resolution" at all, much less by default.
Couldn't this wreak havoc on doing things like viewing medical images, inserting false detail that isn't there?
As well as on text in images, e.g. inventing a cleanly readable but hallucinated license plate number on a car, or financial figure, where the original is blurry?
Not only does this seem like a terribly dangerous idea, but I'm shocked that a legal review at Microsoft would ever have approved this in the first place.
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
#5That's nothing. This is on by default:
"Allow Microsoft to save your browsing activity including history, usage, favorites, web content, and other browsing data to personalize Microsoft Edge and Microsoft services like ads, search, shopping and news."
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
#6It's such a dumb feature too, i don't think there's a single person who wants all the photos on the web "enhanced" it's adding features for the sake of adding features. What people actually want from edge is ads and tabloids not being plastered everywhere, but apparently that's asking too much.
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Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
#7So how can we remove this and other Microsoft spyware from our systems?
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
#8Sounds like a feature a product manager thought, "Hey this is so cool! look what it did with this narrow set of test cases. We should ship it to everyone and claim impact!"
Second order effects are rarely considered, and bad actors ignored.
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
#9Wow.. I'm glad I'm not using Edge... Unfortunately I still need Windows on one computer though
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
#10So how can we remove this and other Microsoft spyware from our systems?
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