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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  • joyjoy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    1 year ago

    Why does the thumbnail for this article appear nowhere on the page? Here it is.

    • GreyBeard@lemmy.oneEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      My guess is that either the image was there and was edited out, or there is a metadata tag on the post that lists that as the thumbnail, but the page isn’t otherwise using it.

      • joyjoy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        The <meta> tag is where I got it.

        <meta property="og:image" content="https://cdn.neowin.com/news/images/uploaded/2023/06/1686566370_microsoft_shaq_meme_story.jpg" />
  • YellowtoOrange@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    I posted on /r/bing a few days how now you can’t turn off tracking or history in edge but can’t find the article and don’t want to give reddit any traffic to check…

    Stick to firefox.

    • b000rg@midwest.socialEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      You’d think that more corporations would be worried about corporate espionage through web browsers, email clients, etc. all being created by one company with a history of bad privacy practices.

      • meat_popsicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Corporations don’t want to ditch their IE only intranets - they don’t have a choice but to use Edge for IE Mode now that IE is retired.

  • Eke@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    it doesn’t make any difference because no one uses it anyway. am I right?

  • Voynich@lemmy.oneEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Edge isn’t that bad of a browser. I don’t appreciate the hate people sling at it without even trying it. It’s seriously becoming a better browser than Firefox.

    • CheshireSnake@lemmy.oneEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Like someone has said, we’re in a privacy-oriented sub so it’s natural (expected even) to expect the hate. Edge/MS really is bad in terms of privacy. So I get the hate.

      With that said, privacy concerns aside, I have to agree that its reputation is worse than it really is. I was pleasantly surprised when I tried it, but my standard was IE so it wasn’t really saying much lol. It’s getting bad with unnecessary features, though.

      As for being better than FF… well, of course in terms of privacy FF is still better imho. However, I rely on chromium-based browsers for work. Some internal sites I use for work simply don’t play well with FF. I do have Brave, but I sometimes use Edge as well.

      Is there a good chromium browser anyone can recommend? Is Brave the best privacy-wise? Vivaldi?

    • Scaldart@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      I’m one of those people. I hate Edge. Like, with a disproportionate amount of vitriol.

      But it actually doesn’t have anything to do with its functionality (though I’m not thrilled with the privacy concern OP linked), but rather the fact that I get bombarded with “IT’S BETTER IN EDGE! MAKE EDGE YOUR DEFAULT BROWSER! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!.” It’s the most asinine, annoying bullshit.

      In all fairness, I did finally figure out how to make it stop. It’s just ridiculous that I have to go through all of that every time I’m on a new PC. Let me browse the way I want to, damnit.

    • Mihuy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, I was using Edge before I started caring about my privacy. It’s literally the fastest chromium browser and has a bunch of cool features. But as @CheshireSnake said, privacy wise Edge isn’t an option.

    • avapa@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Hmm, I don’t know… Leaving privacy aside (we are on /c/privacyguides mind you) it’s not that bad but it has become so incredibly bloated with features that I almost feel overwhelmed especially coming from stock Chrome or Firefox. Might just be me tho

      • Pancit Canton@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I thought I wasn’t the only one. Came from Chrome and Firefox, MS Edge seems overstuffed with news grids/headlines, Bing sidebar, MS “apps” etc. It is soooo unnecessary.

    • FermatsLastAccount@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’ve been using it a bit since Bing chat came out (even though Edge on Linux should probably be like a crime) and it’s pretty good. But this is a legitimate privacy concern that’s deserving of hate.

      • Voynich@lemmy.oneEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        The concern about privacy is definitely valid, but I’m not as worried about that stuff as I care more that it works than anything else.

  • JustARegularNerd@aussie.zoneEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I always use a combination of LibreWolf or Ungoogled Chromium for websites that don’t work in LW, but my work insists we use and recommend Edge, their reason being that if a user has trouble in Edge we should know how to fix it, especially as it’s the browser we should be recommending.

    Good to know I need to be especially careful of what I view on Edge now though… Yikes.

  • SmugBedBug@lemmy.iswhereits.atEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    My god! Being based on chromium and developed by Microsoft were already 2 reasons to stay away. Why would they feel the need to send viewed images back to Microsoft?

    I wonder if this includes private images from iCloud/google photos.

  • darkknight@beehaw.orgEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’ve only ever used edge to download another browser or when on a clients server. Edge works ok, but I would never use it as my daily browser.

    I’ve lost count of how many times i’ve clicked ‘continue without my data’, just open the damn browser please.