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Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by npteljes »

freediver wrote: post #16
RajT88 wrote: post #5

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.

This is a bad take, because many products are not free, and you still get shafted with surveillance, ads and more. Windows is one example, but there's also cable TV subscriptions, smart TVs, many modern games on phones and PC.

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by 20after4 »

LoganDark wrote: post #340
netsharc wrote: post #284

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With remote work it always fascinates me to see how many people leave the weather (& news) bar displayed next to the tray on the taskbar, this is something that came with a Windows 10 update. People really don't change defaults... I was wondering if I could make a fake one, just add an appropriate icon and change its label to say something like 6000°C Nuclear Holocaust

> I was wondering if I could make a fake one, just add an appropriate icon and change its label to say something like 6000°C Nuclear Holocaust Dude, if you ever make this, post it to HN. I'd install that on my computer in a heartbeat.

And this is why windows is plagued with malware.

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by aspyct »

Forget sending the pictures I view to MS, what about the pictures my customers view?

I work as a photographer half the time, and opted out of using lightroom and other cloud services because I don't want my images to land in the various clouds and AI bullshit.

But I guess now I don't have any control over that anymore, do I?

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by aspyct »

alden5 wrote: post #2

It's such a dumb feature too, i don't think there's a single person who wants all the photos on the web "enhanced" it's adding features for the sake of adding features. What people actually want from edge is ads and tabloids not being plastered everywhere, but apparently that's asking too much.

I want stuff enhanced _locally_.

Would love to be able to stream 360p video and have 1080p equivalent quality, for when I'm just absently listening to what's happening.

But sending a picture to the cloud, to get a bigger picture in exchange, that sounds stupid.

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by 20after4 »

mikae1 wrote: post #124
hospitalJail wrote: post #114

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>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…

Could you name some Zelda clones?

https://veloren.net - not exactly a clone but it's pretty awesome (and free software)

"Veloren is a multiplayer voxel RPG written in Rust. It is inspired by games such as Cube World, Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Dwarf Fortress and Minecraft."

"Veloren is fully open-source, licensed under GPL 3. It uses original graphics, musics and other assets created by its community. Being contributor-driven, its development community and user community is one and the same: developers, players, artists and musicians come together to develop the game. "

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by LoganDark »

20after4 wrote: post #452
LoganDark wrote: post #340

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> I was wondering if I could make a fake one, just add an appropriate icon and change its label to say something like 6000°C Nuclear Holocaust Dude, if you ever make this, post it to HN. I'd install that on my computer in a heartbeat.

And this is why windows is plagued with malware.

not really. people on HN making joke software (that is probably open source) doesn't sound like a particularly common source of malware

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by jacooper »

mr_toad wrote: post #378
jacooper wrote: post #359

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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.

It does send your browsing history to google.

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by nstart »

RajT88 wrote: post #5

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 raise you the languages tab which by default sends text typed in “certain text boxes” to Microsoft for grammar assistance and text prediction.

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by Cloudef »

NovaDudely wrote: post #422
Cloudef wrote: post #353

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Isnt ToTK just a BOTW DLC?

ToTK makes BotW look like like an early developer build. While the base of the map is the same, they expanded it WAY beyond anything reasonable for an expansion pack. They have an below ground map that is the same size as the rest of hyrule and it is basically done just as a bonus to the rest of the title.

The depths is just inverted version of the same overworld height map, copy-pasted enemies and reused items from BOTW. It's simply yet another collectahon with bunch of puzzle shrines with physics sandbox. Not zelda game in my book. At least it did not copy paste the same boss with different skin 3 times this time however.

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by NayamAmarshe »

hot_gril wrote: post #430
NayamAmarshe wrote: post #394

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I don't use Netflix but on Brave, I haven't had any problems with Amazon Prime Video. > Zoom and Discord also have caveats. Such as? I use zoom just fine on Linux. Never noticed any caveats. I don't use Discord so not sure what's missing. > And hardware peripherals are always questionable with Linux Not a problem with most PCs. Unless you have a really special hardware, Linux will work just fine. Sometimes brand new…

Zoom has issues with hardware acceleration and screen sharing on Linux, similarly with Discord. Netflix requires specific setup to work at all, and you get 720p at best unless you use Chrome with some custom extension to get 1080p at best. And back in the day (2018, not long ago) when you needed Adobe Flash to watch the World Cup on the only legitimate US site for it, Linux was a dead end. > Not a problem with most P…

> Zoom has issues with hardware acceleration and screen sharing on Linux, similarly with Discord.

I have no idea what the issues are. I've been using screen sharing for years and I haven't run into any issues. Same with my friends and family who switched to Zorin from Windows.

> Netflix requires specific setup to work at all, and you get 720p at best unless you use Chrome with some custom extension to get 1080p at best.

Ah, support issue I guess. Yes, Linux is sometimes not treated well by these companies but at least workarounds exist.

> but a laptop with a trackpad, BT, wifi, sleep, and USB-connected accessories, that gets dicey.

I have used Ryzen and Intel laptops and the only issue I've run into is Ubuntu installer not booting because of missing Nvidia drivers, whereas Zorin worked fine on day 1 (when Ryzen 5th gen was quite new).

Other than that, I haven't had any issues. My desktop's WiFi USB Adapter needs third party drivers so that's always an extra step whenever I'm installing new distros, but I haven't run into any issues that make the device unusable or work in a broken state.

The Bluetooth issues you just mentioned, I haven't seen any, and I am currently writing this on an HP Pavilion 15 Gaming laptop with Bluetooth connected to my speakers. I'm sure there are a few bluetooth chipsets that need kernel updates. For example, Victus has a mediatek BT+WiFi chip and it needs the latest 6.2 kernel, so it doesn't work on Zorin out of the box. However, upgrading kernels on Zorin is quite easy and there's a guide on the forums: http://maglit.me/upgrade-zorin-kernel

Besides, Linux in its current state is still a lot better than terrible software like Windows. No ads, no spyware, the system runs smooth no matter how old the installation is. All of these things are a luxury on the Windows side; it's terrible software.

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