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Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by Aleklart »

ivlad wrote: post #355
vorticalbox wrote: post #253

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Linux isn't any better. Take any Debian based os download a .deb and double click it. It's executable by default, opens up in something like Eddie and just asks for a password. Nothing about Linux is really more secure than windows other than the fact it is a small target.

.deb is not executable. It’s an “ar” archive (see https://manpages.debian.org/buster/dpkg-dev/deb.5.en.html for more details) containing a few other archives - for files and metadata. The fact that deb extension is associated with an application (I don’t know what Eddie is) does not make deb executable. It’s like Winzip opening a zip archive on double click in Windows: yes, the file is opened, but no untrusted code h…

It is like self extracting winzip archive, because of maintainer scripts.

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by Clamchop »

hot_gril wrote: post #178
eulers_secret wrote: post #128

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I literally reinstalled win10 yesterday and you’re right on. I couldn’t even install due to “a media driver your computer needs is missing” with no further info and no workaround. This was after mbr2gpt.exe failed and gave no information on why and every online resource was SEO crap without any info on fixing it. I eventually used Ventoy, it works on Linux and solved my problems immediately. It also forces the win in…

> every online resource was SEO crap without any info on fixing it Man, searching anything related to Microsoft software is an instant trip down scam lane. It's not their fault even. Part of me is glad the majority aren't using Macs and bringing that over here.

It's a little bit their fault. They host forums but appear not to tend to them. There's endless trash there from external "experts" that rarely engage with the specific problem and have no particular advice beyond sfc /scannow.

Good troubleshooting advice can be found but good gravy is it hard to dig up.

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by bagacrap »

brookst wrote: post #383
bagacrap wrote: post #370

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I don't think Google is legally allowed to host child porn on its servers so I'm not sure why there should be outrage about that

Nobody knows what Google scans for, in which regions, at the behest of which governments. And it can change moment to moment, and nobody knows when it changes.

Is there a company that doesn't obey the local laws in the regions where it operates?

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by hypercube33 »

kup0 wrote: post #477
mentalpiracy wrote: post #151

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Actually yes it will - at least as of last weekend. During OOBE setup, after connecting to Ethernet or Wi-Fi, you must select “join a work or school domain.” I got tripped up by this too because I was insistent on not connecting it to the internet during setup, but the local account only switch had moved since I last checked up on it. It will still ask you three or four times ARE YOU SURE you don’t want to sign in to…

Probably only for Pro edition, not Home

I'm fairly sure if you try to login with f@you.com it'll try to log you in and fail a few times and let you make an account.

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by MathMonkeyMan »

4BynHmBFUxBD wrote: post #212
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…

>Office is almost obsolete with google + free stuff Google is also a privacy nightmare tho...

I use LibreOffice. I'm the only person I know who does, but it works great. People are incensed when I send them ods files. "You expect me to install a program on my computer to view this file?" "No, you can use any spreadsheet program." "I don't want to do that. Why don't you just use Google sheets?"

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by froggit »

ocbyc wrote: post #416
AJ007 wrote: post #202

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I saw that pop up on one of my parent's computers. The hardware is old enough that it didn't want to install Windows 11, but Microsoft still managed to push that shit. Within an hour I wiped the drive of Windows.

You have multiple parents or they have multiple computers? What did you replace Windows with?

Grammatically, the location of the apostrophe makes parent singular. However, it seems weird if I think of it that way, likely because pronunciation as a whole is the same regardless of parent being singular or plural. Computers is plural regardless. This really doesn't effect me ib any way, but somehow seeing someone else want to know makes me want to know.

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by account42 »

indymike wrote: post #399
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…

> when it comes to Github If MS did something super sketchy with Github, I suspect there would be an almost cambrian explosion of new tools to do with Github does.

GitHub as a tool is easily replaceable. GitHub as a platform where you can easily interact with countless projects is not. MS would have to really fuck up to negate the network effects.

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Post by drakz »

NotYourLawyer wrote: post #248
kernal wrote: post #193

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Firefox has telemetry and "run studies" turned on by default.

Nothing’s perfect. Firefox is the least-bad of the available options, and it’s pretty good.

So Firefox gets a green card for doing telemetry by default without user's consent and Brave doesn't?

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by drakz »

LordShredda wrote: post #33
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 chromium based, which immediately means it's not going to help with anything

being Chromium based != bad for privacy
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