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So how can we remove this and other Microsoft spyware from our systems?
Microsoft will continue down this path until it becomes unprofitable.
So how can we remove this and other Microsoft spyware from our systems?
You can try to disable each new instance but it will keep coming. These "features" will get harder to disable as time goes on.
Microsoft's goal is to make as much money as possible. Your data is worth money. They will attempt to make use of that. Will this harm Windows use long-term? Likely. But it definitely makes money in the short term.
It'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.
The feature as such seems okay, and I can even see myself using this on occasion. But it really should be a button in the image or something, for usability and privacy concerns.
As this article shows, you can fiddle with Edge and other browsers to try and make them more privacy respecting --- but why bother trying to hit a constantly moving target?
Clearly, your privacy is not in their best interests and they will only continue to circumvent it.
This 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…
That'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."
So how can we remove this and other Microsoft spyware from our systems?
So how can we remove this and other Microsoft spyware from our systems?
https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/amd64/index.en.html
"Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman"
Sounds 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.