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Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

#31

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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?

I'm told that browser is Brave

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

#32

Just 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.

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

#33

Brave --- 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.

Brave is chromium based, which immediately means it's not going to help with anything

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

#34

Just 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 don't see anyone here defending microsoft for this.

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

#35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which one is the browser that i can pay for and keep my privacy, then? Safari?

I'm told that browser is Brave

Unfortunately brave is forever cemented in my mind as being linked to the brave shitcoin.

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

#36

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?

Firefox with uBlock Origin and various about:config flags disabling telemetry, autocomplete, etc.

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

#37

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?

Orion browser by Kagi is a browser you can pay for. Another one I know of is SigmaOS. Both are Mac only, not sure about the state of things on other platforms.

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

#39

Just 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.

This post has >100 votes in 1 hour, with >30 comments all to the tune of "wow, this is awful." If there are people here defending MSFT, they're not prominent.

I'm not sure what more you expect?

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

#40

Brave --- 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.

> Brave --- the easy way to fix this and lots of other privacy related issues affecting the most popular web browsers.

Unfortunately any browser with telemetry turned on by default is not fixing privacy related issues, but is making them worse.

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