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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.
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…
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...
So 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.
Read the Firefox Privacy Notice, for example: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/
It sounds to me like Firefox can collect and send out a lot of information beyond what is necessary for user-initiated browsing actions to be performed.
There are also numerous references to sharing information/data with "partners".
Maybe that data collection, transmission, and sharing can be disabled easier than in other browsers. A browser that truly respected user privacy, however, just wouldn't include such functionality to begin with.
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."
If you are not paying for your browser with your wallet, somebody else is paying for you. It has all sorts of implications.
I don't want to be the product.
I'm not normally careful about privacy and never felt Linux was a worthwhile alternative on desktop, but this was so plain annoying that I'd probably pick Linux on my primary PC nowadays if I didn't already have a Mac.
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…
It’s crazy. I used Edge when it first switched to Chromium because it was a nice, clean Chrome alternative with working sync. Today it’s obvious Microsoft can’t be trusted. This “feature” is insane and it makes me concerned about what Windows might be doing in the background.
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MSFT is the biggest software company out there. And Google is the biggest privacy invader out there.
Except that posts like this should change your beliefs towards who the biggest privacy invader really is
Google's main product is YOU. Without your privacy, they would have nothing to sell to advertisers --- which accounts for about 80 percent of their revenue.