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alyaza [they/she] ( alyaza@beehaw.org ) MA to TechnologyEnglish · 3 years ago

Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing

www.theverge.com

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Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing

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alyaza [they/she] ( alyaza@beehaw.org ) MA to TechnologyEnglish · 3 years ago
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Microsoft says it’s investigating reports of an Edge privacy issue.
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    The longer part of the windows install process is not the installation. It’s removing all the pre-installed bloatware, removing or disabling all the telemetry and other undesired features that are on by default.

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    • people_are_cute ( people_are_cute@lemmy.sdf.org ) 
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      Just pirate LTSC.

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        Just run Linux.

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          If your hardware lets you

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            Run a distro of linux which is less resource intensive than windows?

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              Nah, one specific hardware where its manufacturer hasn’t written a Linux driver and no one bothered to reverse engineer

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            Don’t buy shitty hardware.

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