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If you use windows it will routinely set edge back to the default browser. The web team of microsoft is absolutely disgusting in every possible way, and it has always been.
This has never happened to me with Windows as a daily driver since 2014.
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> 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 ca…
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 not serious about privacy. Firefox.
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Which one is the browser that i can pay for and keep my privacy, then? Safari?
I'm told that browser is Brave
It's a freaking shitcoin browser, but that probably means enormous PR budgets.
Sad that a mozilla has apparently sunk itself in the meantime.
It's really a sad dystopian future we live in compared to the cypherpunk optimism of the 90's.
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Vivaldi is my browser of choice due to sync, and because Firefox as much as I love it does not perform well when scrolling on mobile. Of course, Firefox has sync as well.
I don't have problems scrolling in Firefox mobile that I've noticed, and I don't run flagship phones (I'm running a few years old Galaxy A51). I do run uBlock on Firefox Mobile though, which I'm sure helps immensely, so maybe that's the main difference.
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."
I installed Windows 10 (not even 11!) recently on a random laptop and was appalled by the amount of BS in the initial setup process. Forced me to make a Microsoft online account seemingly with remote access to my PC, tried to sign me up for several different free trials, then tried multiple times to push me to Edge instead of Chrome. The UI has new crap like the Bing search on the taskbar and in the center of the des…
In the unfortunate scenarios, where you need to use a Windows Install and or a VM never start without running through something like this: https://github.com/Sycnex/Windows10Debloater WARNING: Use at your own risk, no guarantees. Personally never broke anything for me.
I've been pretty leery of them ever since - definitely don't try it on a critical machine, and you're really at the mercy of Microsoft changing something every update. Definitely "use at your own risk" territory.
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MSFT's main product is software and services. 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.
Windows is free. MSFT is literally siphoning data from your personal devices. You’re speaking on an agenda without accounting for reality