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That's nothing. This is on by default: "Allow Microsoft to save your browsing activity including history, usage, favorites, web content, and other browsing da
by RajT88 3y ago
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."
- freediver 3y agoIf you are not paying for your browser with your wallet, somebody else is paying for you. It has all sorts of implications.
- janoc 3y agoI didn't know that Windows is now free.
- einr 3y agoIn practice it has been free for home users for many years. I assume the only reason they still keep up the facade that Windows costs money is so they can sell it to OEMs and volume licenses to businesses, which still makes them big bucks.
- mr_toad 3y agoIt only seems free for home use because the activation key for the home version is embedded in NVRAM of the machine by the OEM. You pay the OEM when you buy the machine, and they pay Microsoft.
- einr 3y agoYou pay the OEM once, for a Windows 7 key, and then you run on that -- because it keeps working, with Microsoft's implicit authorization -- for the next 15+ years. They 100% would not let you do that if they cared to charge for Windows like they did in the pre-Windows 8 days when Windows was the product and not the user's data.
- pjmlp 3y agoEdge is cross platform.
- ChuckNorris89 3y agoIt's free if you're willing to break the EULA. I haven't paid for it. Just used some Win 7 CD key I found online and it activated.
- hot_gril 3y agoNot even break EULA, just download from Microsoft and install without activating.
- technothrasher 3y agoThat is breaking the EULA: "You are authorized to use this software only if you are properly licensed and the software has been properly activated with a genuine product key or by other authorized method."
- reaperducer 3y agoWhich one is the browser that i can pay for and keep my privacy, then? Safari?
- BurningFrog 3y agoI'm told that browser is Brave
- gaze 3y agoUnfortunately brave is forever cemented in my mind as being linked to the brave shitcoin.
- causi 3y agoIs the Brave shitcoin really worse than all the stupid-ass stunts and services Mozilla has pulled over the years?
- michaelmrose 3y agoIntegration of pocket never sent your data to pocket or made you use it. It's scandals are entirely boring.
- gaze 3y agoI'm not saying better or worse, I'm just saying that it's an embarassment.
- account42 3y ago"But that other guy is just as bad" is never a good argument.
- StingyJelly 3y agoThe opt-in brave shitcoin?
- JPws_Prntr_Fngr 3y ago
- dist-epoch 3y agoThis is why I don't use Firefox/Chrome/Edge or Linux. I don't want to be the product.
- michaelmrose 3y agoFirefox has had minor missteps in the past but Linux and Firefox are not unsecure options despite being free and Microsoft isn't a safe option despite charging money. Your algorithm is fairly broken.
- autoexec 3y agoEven with Linux you have to be careful. Some distros have pulled shit like sending local searches to remote servers so that they can push amazon ads at you (https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/ubuntu-spyware-what-to-do https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/ubuntu-spyware-what-to-do). We have to watch everyone like a hawk these days.
- michaelmrose 3y agoSome distros is one of the major distros once in 30 years 10 years ago.
- TheNewsIsHere 3y agoWhere in Linux is the user generally the product?
- hexo 3y agoubuntu
- pessimizer 3y agoouch
- hospitalJail 3y agoUsers become lifelong converts and demand organizations convert until they have to give Linus money to fix problems. (25% /s)
- autoexec 3y agoI doesn't matter how much you pay for something, they'll still collect all the data on you that they can because you can never pay more than they'd make taking your money and also collecting your data.
- bagacrap 3y agoWhich browser are you paying for with your wallet
- npteljes 3y agoThis 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.
- Chocobean 3y agohey I've got a question about Kagi: so, a bunch of third party apps made for Reddit are getting killed this month because Reddit decides to jack up the prices. What's going to happen to Kagi if/when it becomes somewhat of a competitor to Google/Bing and they want it dead?
- imglorp 3y agoWindows is not the product anymore: it's now 1) an ad delivery vehicle. 2) user surveillance collector, 3) cloud service loss leader
- nwoli 3y agoData harvester for their daughter company openai to eventually build machines that replace their customers
- maximus-decimus 3y agoExcept they do ask you money for it. At this point, they should at least make it a free download. Being forced to have all that crap on something you paid for is just insulting.
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- LispSporks22 3y agoI think Microsoft is trying to wear us down with stupid shit.
- deafpolygon 3y agoIt is exhausting. But Linux isn't a completely viable alternative. I still want to play games and do other things.
- NovaDudely 3y agoThe games situation is pretty good nowadays, it is amazing just how well Proton can work. But if that one title you want is completely broken, I couldn't sell you Linux at all. I have found it isn't usually the games that are the issue but the utilities. They are almost always alternatives but a lot of the time, you don't want the alternative - you want that specific program. Wine compatibility can be good but it can also be very strange. Notepad++ for instance, it works... but hits my systems CPU harder than GTA V. Go figure!
- NovaDudely 3y agoAbsolutely, it is the reason I am not too positive about the future of computing. Back in the early 2000's it was considered a major privacy issue when Windows XP used to identify what kind of machine you were using for a Security update. It took less than 20 years for that to turn into the dumpster fire we have today. It is a case of our economic system is pitched in such a way as to drive these large companies to this path. In optimizing for shareholder profit, eventually they will go the path of least ethical solution provided they can get away with it. Those that do not do that will be left behind . An absolute shame really.
- nstart 3y agoI raise you the languages tab which by default sends text typed in “certain text boxes” to Microsoft for grammar assistance and text prediction.