I hope Microsoft is okay with looking at a lot of porn
Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
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Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
#22That'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."
Windows is not the product anymore: it's now 1) an ad delivery vehicle. 2) user surveillance collector, 3) cloud service loss leader
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
#23That'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."
If you are not paying for your browser with your wallet, somebody else is paying for you. It has all sorts of implications.
Which one is the browser that i can pay for and keep my privacy, then? Safari?
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
#24Just imagine if Google was doing something like this; I bet the HN servers would melt down from the outrage! MS often gets a pass in these areas because people think of it as the "underdog", when in reality, MSFT is the biggest software company out there.
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
#25So how can we remove this and other Microsoft spyware from our systems?
You can start by switching to Firefox (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browsers/). It's a perfectly fine browser, good extensions.
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#26This 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…
Reminds me of the issue where Xerox machines would replace some 9’s on your scanned documents with 0’s due to over enthusiastic compression.
https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres...
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
#27Wow. Viewing TFA in Edge must send a hundred images to Microsoft, since that page is 90% ads.
At one point, there are so many ads stacked up that there's no article text left!
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
#28Just imagine if Google was doing something like this; I bet the HN servers would melt down from the outrage! MS often gets a pass in these areas because people think of it as the "underdog", when in reality, MSFT is the biggest software company out there.
Yup, pretty common theme on this and other online communities.
If Apple does something – this is obviously the correct thing to do, and everyone should copy them.
If Microsoft does the same thing – meh, no one cares.
If Google or Meta does the same thing – pitchforks, outrage, a thousand daily top-voted blog posts detailing how terrible these companies are.
Goes to show how much of the current outrage culture is driven by marketing and perception rather than reality.
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
#29How does this pass legal review?
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
#30Microsoft Edge has become a place where Microsoft can try out things at a much faster pace than Windows update.
But that means it's getting all of these features by default, leaking yorur data to Microsoft and with deceptive questions to make you use Bing as the default search engine. Every time I get the prompt I need to do a double take because they use their 'blue button' thing as a way to guide you to a certain choice.
Same thing with downloading a file.
Do you want to keep it? Yes. Are you sure? And then you need to EXPAND something and click something that looks like a link, not a button to keep the file.
That's just bad. A link shouldn't cause an action to be executed.