MS turns evil when it comes to the browser. Maybe for other things too, but I definitely notice it when it comes to their browser. Like every time Edge upgrades, it asks questions using weird wordage to get you to click on setting it as the default browser.
Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
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Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
#112This 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…
>> inventing a cleanly readable but hallucinated license plate number on a car, or financial figure,
This has already happened with copiers, which because of a bug in a compression algorithm, would randomly change figures when copying
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unfortunately brave is forever cemented in my mind as being linked to the brave shitcoin.
Is the Brave shitcoin really worse than all the stupid-ass stunts and services Mozilla has pulled over the years?
I'm not saying better or worse, I'm just saying that it's an embarassment.
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Reminder that MS owns GitHub, LinkedIn, and Mojang.
>Mojang
The real danger. (almost unironically though)
I can switch OS, Office is almost obsolete with google + free stuff, their browser/software is terrible and never used, Github(yikes, well, git works..), LinkedIn(and nothing of value was lost).
So we really are at the whim of M$ when it comes to Github and Minecraft. Scary. But hey, I used to be obsessed with Nintendo games, and now people have Zelda clones so I don't need to pay games that are graded on the Nintendo Curve.
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
#115This 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…
Indeed, this sounds like a bad idea not just for the user but for the image host as well. If I post a picture, I post it the way I want it to be seen. I don't want the browser to arbitrarily reinterpret it.
Well, that reminds me of autocorrection in web input fields, turned on automatically. Especially great if there is no proper language detection. You type a message into a text field, and Edge corrects every second word because you are typing in your native langauge, how dare you?! This is totally something I'd enable by default, because, you know, what is there except US and UK? Nah, nothing noteworthy... Ah, the joy. Internationalisation, no surprise its written i18n, it reflects the care and fucks given... Or Apple... I t took them 3 major iOS releases to have umlauts pronounced properly with their speech synth. Umlauts?! Who the fuck needs those?!
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
#116Here is how you disable that:
1. Go to your favorite search engine
2. Download a different browser
3. Never use Edge again
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sending medical images to Microsoft seems like a major HIPAA violation.
> Sending medical images to Microsoft seems like a major HIPAA violation. Without sounding to condescending: Bro... this entire Industry still relies on using fax or snailmail for records. Using slow, leaky, non-private/seure channels for sensitive information is not as much of a concern to this field than one thinks if you've been in the belly of the beast. Ask anyone who has spent anytime doing IT work at a hospita…
Waaaaait! In the US also the FAX is still a thing?! Seriously?!
I have heard terrible stories from Germany and Japan, but did not know that also the US…
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's free if you're willing to break the EULA. I haven't paid for it. Just used some Win 7 CD key I found online and it activated.
Not even break EULA, just download from Microsoft and install without activating.
That is breaking the EULA:
"You are authorized to use this software only if you are properly licensed and the software has been properly activated with a genuine product key or by other authorized method."
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sending medical images to Microsoft seems like a major HIPAA violation.
> Sending medical images to Microsoft seems like a major HIPAA violation. Without sounding to condescending: Bro... this entire Industry still relies on using fax or snailmail for records. Using slow, leaky, non-private/seure channels for sensitive information is not as much of a concern to this field than one thinks if you've been in the belly of the beast. Ask anyone who has spent anytime doing IT work at a hospita…
Try talking to healthcare workers too. They think there is some magic about faxes.
>They are so fast(no they arent, something can be ahead of them)
>They are safe compared to email(literally anyone can walk by the fax and take it)
>They are faster than a phone call, because doctors don't pick up the phone. (What...)
You can mention the US government has ultra high security communication that uses the internet, you can mention the value of finance information, you can talk about the secrets your billion dollar company sends over email/web. But noooo, patient information is too sensitive and urgent to be sent over email/web....
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
#120This feature is not public, right? Not on my Edge installation. It's only on canary.