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Seems like every new update, Edge gets more enabled-by-default 'telemetry' options. Here's one of the latest: >Include related matches in Find on page >When e
by Casteil 3y ago
Seems like every new update, Edge gets more enabled-by-default 'telemetry' options. Here's one of the latest:
>Include related matches in Find on page
>When enabled, your Find on page search and the webpage contents will be sent to Microsoft to help find better results, including synonyms, alternate spellings, and answers to questions
- wilkystyle 3y agoThe addition of new options that are default-on is an incredibly user-hostile pattern, and it is depressingly common: - Modern Windows versions introducing new telemetry options (to say nothing of existing disabled options being toggled back on...) - LinkedIn with with new notification types that are turned on by default, with no option to disable all notifications entirely (there are now so many notifications that the notifications settings page has a nested page) - My former University's newsletters mailing list, which keeps adding new types of newsletter that I am default subscribed to, despite previously unsubscribing from every other newsletter (I finally just created a mail rule to block the entire subdomain.domain.edu). And the list goes on...
- Casteil 3y agoYeah, it's incredibly invasive. US desperately needs privacy laws governing these mass violations of privacy.