Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
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Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
#32Just 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.
And Google is the biggest privacy invader out there.
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
#33Brave --- the easy way to fix this and lots of other privacy related issues affecting the most popular web browsers. 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.
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
#34Just 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
#35Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
#38Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
#39Just 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.
I'm not sure what more you expect?
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
#40Brave --- the easy way to fix this and lots of other privacy related issues affecting the most popular web browsers. 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.
Unfortunately any browser with telemetry turned on by default is not fixing privacy related issues, but is making them worse.