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[-] otter@lemmy.ca 133 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Firefox: Found a way to translate webpages locally on the device, so you don't need to send any data

Edge: Made it so you can't CTRL-F without sending data to Microsoft

How does this work for sensitive information like banking sites? I know some healthcare software runs in the browser, surely this is a violation of those rules too.

[-] deleted@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I think telemetry is disabled / very limited for enterprises.

If you sign in to your bank account through edge in your personal device then you agreed to whatever they say when you installed their os.

[-] leds@feddit.dk 51 points 1 year ago

Microsoft Edge submits the following data to Microsoft cloud services using a HTTPS connection:

The text of the webpage.

Interesting , this has implications for pages that are not on public internet. Viewing confidential/secret company documents in edge?

[-] ryper@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago

You left out the important bit before that:

When users enable "include related matches in Find on page", Microsoft Edge submits the following data to Microsoft cloud services using a HTTPS connection:

Seems like nothing gets sent if you do a normal exact search.

[-] leds@feddit.dk 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah but isn't that what the whole article is about? And is it enabled by default or opt in?

[-] SlikPikker@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago
[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Future edge patch note:

  • Fixed bug where sometimes edge would send pages to MS cloud despite local search only being enabled

Haha j/k, there won't be a patch note, and the fix will probably be a heuristic to determine if the user isn't a security expert analyzing their traffic to determine if it's sending more than it should be, with it defaulting to off until that heuristic reports a hit.

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

At this stage, I'm surprised that the keyboard drivers don't just send everything to Microsoft.

Although they probably already do.

[-] Contend6248@feddit.de 19 points 1 year ago

T E L E M E T R Y

[-] joseangel@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Ever hear of SwiftKey?

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 year ago

Use Firefox

While you're at it, switch to Linux and be done with the Microsoft and spyware bullshit

[-] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 18 points 1 year ago

Who tf uses edge if they have a choice.

[-] tja@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

It has a very good integration with the rest of Microsoft 365, which we have to use at our company

[-] Contend6248@feddit.de 12 points 1 year ago

You've meant to say that they just make it a legit pain in the ass to use anything else.

There is no reason for that otherwise.

[-] tja@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Both.

It is a pain in the ass to use the Microsoft online services with eg Firefox. Sometimes it is even impossible to log in for me.

But also the new Enterprise profile in Edge is very good if your company uses all of these services

[-] brsrklf@jlai.lu 7 points 1 year ago

The biggest problem I have with having to use Edge at my work is how it pushes bing (obviously) as the default search engine.

I swear it only becomes worse with time. Every query is now answered with that awful AI that is never, never on point. Seriously, it just pulls a bunch of random questions only vaguely related to your request and decides to list answers to those instead.

Of course this shit takes a whole screen before the actual search results show up. And at the bottom, just where all decent search engines put a "next page" button, instead they put a shortcut... to the AI crap again, back at the top of the page.

[-] phx@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Yup. Coming from the company that brought you IE6 and ActiveX.

"But their cloud push is actually making their services available to more OS's, they're changing" some people said.

Bah

[-] Contend6248@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

There's a reason they release Edge on fucking Linux, not a single person asked for this.

[-] phx@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Imagine being on the team that maintains that though. Must be a very lonely position

[-] Contend6248@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

There are not too many jobs as thankless as that.

[-] skeezix@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[-] DeadlineX@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

People with different skills than you are not stupid. It takes a lot of time, energy, and effort to learn this kind of thing if you’re not interested in it.

We should be kind to others, and not assume superiority because we have skills or knowledge in one area they do not.

[-] skeezix@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Using a privacy-friendly browser takes no more than”skill” than using Edge.

[-] tja@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

It does, if you need to use the online Microsoft Services. Because In Firefox it sometimes is just not working for me. And I don't want to spend the time to figured out what the problem light be.

[-] DeadlineX@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Well sure, that’s true. How do you know that edge isn’t privacy friendly? What about the carpenter who just wants to use their computer to pay bills and google stuff? What about the old folks who don’t know how to install something? What about the people who just don’t enjoy using a computer and haven’t had the opportunity to learn about it?

They’re no more stupid than you would be if you were using a cooking utensil the wrong way because you never learned the appropriate way to use it. Or if you use the space below your oven as storage for pans and cookie sheets instead of correctly using it as a broiler. Or maybe you have one that actually is storage. I wouldn’t know, because I cook simple meals and I’m fine with that. It doesn’t make me stupid. Nobody can know everything.

Here’s a relevant xkcd: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/ten_thousand.png

[-] PlantJam@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Edge is honestly a decent browser now. It's easily on par with chrome based on features, UX, and privacy issues. It's just a question of who you want to abuse your data: Google or Microsoft.

Firefox is the answer, of course, and it's all I'll use. But when it comes to compatability with websites and zero-issue usability by non-technical users in a work setting, it's hard to beat chromium based browsers.

[-] jukibom@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

How much of that is a workaround to feed client rendered webpages into LLMs and bypass robots.txt etc

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I mean, if you want to go around what the site wants you to do, you can just ignore robots.txt. Or use it to find the juicy stuff the site would rather you didn't.

[-] notannpc@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Sounds like malware to me.

[-] Contend6248@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

There has never been a malware as sophisticated as Windows.

[-] tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social 4 points 1 year ago
[-] deleted@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It’s schroeder’s telemetry.

Your data will be in a superposition.

Edit: I mean Schrödinger's telemetry.

[-] Gazumi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Will block it all even if the product was free.

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