Microsoft says it’s investigating reports of an Edge privacy issue.

What a weird way to spell “intentionally designed to track everything you do”

@CassowaryTom@lemmy.one
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Well no shit.

How surprising

@Hirom@beehaw.org
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The longer part of the windows install process is not the installation. It’s removing all the pre-installed bloatware, removing or disabling all the telemetry and other undesired features that are on by default.

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Just pirate LTSC.

teft
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Just run Linux.

@Exec@pawb.social
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If your hardware lets you

ddh
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Don’t buy shitty hardware.

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Run a distro of linux which is less resource intensive than windows?

@Exec@pawb.social
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Nah, one specific hardware where its manufacturer hasn’t written a Linux driver and no one bothered to reverse engineer

The start menu entries are stored in an encrypted file somewhere beneath a thousand different folders. But its possible to copy a cleaned start menu file and paste it in the correct directory in the default user folder to give new users an ad-free start menu.

Doesn’t Edge send all urls you visit to Microsoft through browser.events.data.msn.com? Microsoft has been tracking every site you visit since the start.

I am shocked that anything regarding Microsoft and windows contains spyware.

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