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nulldev ( nulldev@lemmy.vepta.org )  to TechnologyEnglish · 3 years ago

Edge automatically sends images you view online to Microsoft by default

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Edge automatically sends images you view online to Microsoft by default

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nulldev ( nulldev@lemmy.vepta.org )  to TechnologyEnglish · 3 years ago
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Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft, here is how to disable that
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Microsoft Edge has many convenient features to improve your browsing experience. However, some of those features raise privacy concerns. One, for example, sends images you view directly to Microsoft.
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    Wow. You’d have to be either crazy or ignorant to still want to use Edge.

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      It started as the no frills chrome, and slowly descended into madness

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      I adopted Edge when it started out as a more lightweight Chrome. After that I eventually just got used to it, like a frog being slow-cooked? And now I find it hard to leave, even though it’s gotten more and more bloated. Edge has a really nice text to speech feature with natural voices that I use a lot. I’ve read a lot of books in the two years I’ve been using edge. If I could find an alternative with that feature that was also cross-platform I would gladly switch in a heartbeat.

    • aMalayali ( aMalayali@beehaw.org ) 
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      Edge is/was(have read that windows fixed some defender issue) slightly faster than firefox.

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        But slower than chromium or brave.

        • aMalayali ( aMalayali@beehaw.org ) 
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          I’ve used Chrome(Haven’t yet tried Ungoogled Chromium on PC. Have used Bromite in the past). It didn’t seem much faster.

          Chrome generally felt faster on google services like Meet tho.

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            Not much faster, no. Still the same core, just fewer compulsory extensions like this Snoopy one.

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