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.
As long as that feature can be disabled, which also clearly states that it sends stuff to Microsoft, I don’t see the big problem. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that there are many features enabled by default of dubious privacy.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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…
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.
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i hate to be that guy butlinux is worth the switchit doesn’t make any difference because no one uses it anyway. am I right?
Why does the thumbnail for this article appear nowhere on the page? Here it is.
As long as that feature can be disabled, which also clearly states that it sends stuff to Microsoft, I don’t see the big problem. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that there are many features enabled by default of dubious privacy.
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.
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.
You need to stay away from Microsoft. Period. https://youtu.be/MMc5zgALLiY
What do you expect from Microsoft, really?
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.
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?
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.
you might want to actually read the article
Was “staying away from Edge” not already standard?
It is for me
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.
Fr, firefox with extensions on pc. And Kiwi browser with extensions on phone.
why not firefox on mobile?
Why not Mull on mobile?
I was confused by this too, since Firefox on mobile has extension support
Ridiculous.
Also, probably shouldn’t use Edge in general. I only use it at work, since it’s mandated.
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.
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.
Edge is just an edgy meme at this point