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Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by bboygravity »

mihaaly wrote: post #137
donmcronald wrote: post #53

Earlier 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.

Above the privacy concerns that MS captures your data that they can have their hands on quick and loose and the way they please their terrible record of ruining long living basic functions is a second reson not to go for laptops with Windows, not trusting it for reliabile functionality and handling any private data of mine. Having a completely isolated separate computer for company data on Windows that belongs to the…

Lol, explain this to the average European/global business.

They pay for "the service" to upload their trade secrets and literally everything to Microsft / the USA. OneDrive, SharePoint, Outlook, Teams, etc etc.

And then boast about their high level of "security". The naivity is unbelievable.

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by burnte »

worrycue wrote: post #129
donmcronald wrote: post #53

Earlier 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.

I just had the Edge Desktop Search Bar show up on my desktop. It just appeared from nowhere. Didn't even know when it was "installed". MS is getting really pushy. They probably see the GPT stuff as their ticket to beating Google in search so they are pushing it as hard as they can to get as many users as they can. I just click "turn off". I don't trust LLMs - all their knowledge is learned from the unreliable interne…

I got a laptop in from a user the other day, that shocked the hell out of me, that floating search bar thing. MS is downright creepy the way they slip things in.

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by ShowalkKama »

jqpabc123 wrote: post #14

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.

librewolf is like brave but: - it's firefox - its defaults are saner - it has no crypto bullshit

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by nottorp »

donmcronald wrote: post #53
crazygringo wrote: post #4

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.

> Today it’s obvious Microsoft can’t be trusted.

You weren't around when they were threatening linux with patents and forcing OEMs to not deliver PCs without a Microsoft operating system preinstalled then?

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by belter »

donmcronald wrote: post #53
crazygringo wrote: post #4

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.

Install Office, use an App that tracks bandwidth use, uploads and downloads, PER app, and be amazed with how many MB/s of data Office sends to Microsoft.

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by isoprophlex »

NotYourLawyer wrote: post #105
BasedAnon wrote: post #93

When are people going to grow a backbone and switch to Linux? It's kind of hard to feel sorry for tech-literate Windows users

When my job starts supporting that?

I don't know your circumstances of course, but I'm anal enough about this that I'd consider that a deal breaker.

An employer that forces me to use an OS that treats me like the audience to a television soap opera (meaning, a dumb shmuck who can be puppeted around) is not worth it, it'll kill my joy in working real quick. Tried it, it was horror. So right now, I'd say I'd rather drink my own piss than use a windows box as my daily workstation.

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by hospitalJail »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #155
hospitalJail wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No source code= black box you can't trust.

Well, the rendering engine is open source. https://webkit.org

That is a disingenuous response. I have a program that uses open source libraries, but the program is closed.

Such a weird thing to post in reply.

It has a 'nuh uh' feeling, but doesn't actually refute the parent. However it seeds doubt in the parent argument without ever touching the parent argument.

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by Havoc »

jqpabc123 wrote: post #14

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 literally an ad funded company that made a pinky promise to only do good ad stuff.

Boggles my mind that people view them as the solution to privacy

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by CatWChainsaw »

donmcronald wrote: post #53
crazygringo wrote: post #4

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.

Rather naive to ignore Embrace/Extend/Extinguish, the dark patterns used to push Win10, the online account hassles, the practically buying-up of OpenAI...
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