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What is the feature that can be shut off ?
by jasonjayr 2y ago
What is the feature that can be shut off ?
- Dwedit 2y agohttps://www.theverge.com/2023/4/25/23697532/microsoft-edge-browser-url-leak-bing-privacy https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/25/23697532/microsoft-edge-b... It's the "Show suggestions to follow creators in Microsoft Edge" feature. But that's not the only time Edge has been caught with a feature that sends all your URLs to Microsoft: https://x.com/scriptjunkie1/status/1152280517972299777 https://x.com/scriptjunkie1/status/1152280517972299777 - "Anonymous" statistics sends your Windows SID along with the URL visited for the smartscreen feature https://www.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/147rdv4/microsoft_edges_enhance_image_feature_is_sending/ https://www.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/147rdv4/microsoft... - an Image Enhancement feature sends image URLs to Microsoft https://www.reddit.com/r/AskNetsec/comments/96nwgd/microsoft_edge_sends_your_urls_to_bing_even_when/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AskNetsec/comments/96nwgd/microsoft... - With search suggestions enabled, search suggestions and URLs entered into address bar go to Microsoft regardless of which search engine is selected (Really, typing http: or https: ought to mean no suggestions generated at all)