"Microsoft can’t be trusted."
That's why I use Google Chrome on Windows... wait.
Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
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Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
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Yup, pretty common theme on this and other online communities. If Apple does something – this is obviously the correct thing to do, and everyone should copy them. If Microsoft does the same thing – meh, no one cares. If Google or Meta does the same thing – pitchforks, outrage, a thousand daily top-voted blog posts detailing how terrible these companies are. Goes to show how much of the current outrage culture is driv…
It’s not just marketing, News media hate Google and Facebook for controlling their top-of-funnel and generally outcompeting them in the eyeball market. They will never allow good coverage of them. There’s also the general media trend of punching up / publishing surprising content so it gets clicks. Google especially had the reputation for being “good” for so long that any kind of expose or criticism rings as juicy an…
Bingo.
In addition this I think a lot of software professionals hate Google because they failed the interview.
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
#373Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yup, pretty common theme on this and other online communities. If Apple does something – this is obviously the correct thing to do, and everyone should copy them. If Microsoft does the same thing – meh, no one cares. If Google or Meta does the same thing – pitchforks, outrage, a thousand daily top-voted blog posts detailing how terrible these companies are. Goes to show how much of the current outrage culture is driv…
It’s probably because both MS and Apple actually sell products, hardware and software that used daily and the alternatives aren’t competing much, and then having these “occasional” privacy violations issues, FB/Google on the other hand, having their whole business model about selling your data. But I disagree that they (MS/Apple) get a pass, those are the reasons why some choose to use open source alternatives like l…
Google doesn't sell your data. They use your data to sell ads. Big difference. Cambridge analytica was a Facebook scandal, not Google.
And if you haven't noticed, literally every tech company (apple, Amazon, Ms, Netflix,...) is now attempting to get in on the online ads market.
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
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I didn't know that Windows is now free.
In practice it has been free for home users for many years. I assume the only reason they still keep up the facade that Windows costs money is so they can sell it to OEMs and volume licenses to businesses, which still makes them big bucks.
It only seems free for home use because the activation key for the home version is embedded in NVRAM of the machine by the OEM. You pay the OEM when you buy the machine, and they pay Microsoft.
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
#375This 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…
Dear user, while you browse sites,
we browse your habits:
private data worth billions.
-- a privacy haiku
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I mean, I guess use lynx if you’re that worried about it. Or use Firefox and spend 2 minutes customizing about:config. My point was just that Firefox is a lot better than Brave. I’ll stand by that.
User privacy is a fallacy. The standards we judge applications are thrown out the window relative to the services we use in everyday life. Do you think your ISP, TV service, Cellphone carrier, Credit Card company, etc. care about your privacy and don't sell your data? The answer is rhetorical. Yet these user privacy hypocrites somehow exempt these egregious violations because it's just the way it is. I mean, heaven f…
So what’s your point, just give up? Declare privacy bankruptcy?
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I get that, I felt petty too, but I'm much more productive, and much happier without windows. So you gotta frame it like that. "The cloud runs on linux, I'm most productive when developing natively on something close to where we deploy, can I not use windows?", or, "I have years of bash muscle memory and automate a great deal of mundane tasks, is it okay if I use linux?" Or otherwise make it a gentle enquiry, "I see…
That's how I've been framing it too, something like "I do my best work on Linux/Mac". A couple places that have seemed otherwise fine have acted weird though, Tesla especially.
You've just exposed yourself as a free-thinker. Lots of corps consider that to be a gigantic red flag unfortunately.
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
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Yes.
How? Chrome send your browsing historyz search prompts, browsing activity all to google. I meat at least Microsoft has additional features for that data?
It doesn’t send your search’s to Google if you don’t use Google search. It also won’t send your browsing history, although the web site itself will probably try.
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> 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?
I use Microsoft products for business (though I'm trying to phase them out). I don't care that much about their competitive practices (from a business perspective) and there's even the upside of a pretty uniform productivity software/ file format ecosystem that makes communication easier. Committing corporate espionage, which is what their software does now, on the other hand, makes me not want to use them at all. I…
You also cultured them into not respecting you:
Since you didn’t expect respect or decency before, their management culture doesn’t value that, and accordingly doesn’t treat you with it now.
After all, if you tolerated poor treatment before, why wouldn’t you now?
Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
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Yeah, I switched to the web version of outlook when I noticed (via little snitch) that the desktop app was sending 100's of MB upstream. No idea why it'd need to send much of anything in that direction.
> switched to the web version of outlook I don't understand what you believe this gained you.
A web app can only do what the browser can do. A native app? All bets are off.