Ok Microsoft, This is Low.
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Published 2024-01-29
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0:00 be careful out there
0:13 Microsoft Edge stealing Chrome tabs
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All Comments (21)
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Hey guys Riley here again to make sure you understand that no one's forcing you to sell your graphics card. It's literally your choice. But if you're looking for a change, Jawa can help you sell your old graphics card the easy way and offset the cost of your new card at bit.ly/JawaTLJan24 . BUT NO PRESSURE! You can also request to be buried with your GPU, pharoah-style, that's totally fine
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Microsoft have always had this "we know what's best for you ...we'll give it to you and you'll like it" attitude, but in recent years they've gotten SO much more aggressive about it. I think they know the government isn't bothering to regulate anymore.
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Bro Microsoft is literally out here trying to get an anti-competitive investigation. I guess they didn’t learn their lesson back in the 90s.
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Edge now taking arbitrary private information from your other browsers, reading it without your consent (making it by definition malware) and sending it to microsoft's servers is both terrifying and a huge GDPR violation. Glad I'm nowhere near this browser
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Seriously, we have had Microsoft sued for much less in the past. What is wrong with the world? How is this normal?
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And every update resets a bunch of preferences. Well, Microsoft says it doesn't "reset" them, because your settings are still there, but they rename the flags and the new name gets a new default so that your specified preferences go out the window even though they're "still there".
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I don't understand why Microsoft has been doing all this and hasn't seen any consequences (or threat thereof) similar to what happened in the 90s. This is even worse!
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OneDrive did this to me last week too. I removed it over a year ago because it synced system files and corrupted my pc when I deleted onedrive. Last week I did an update and one drive is back stealing my documents and forcing me to just use it again to avoid annoyances. One drive doesn’t sync a copy, it steals the original and changes the directory to be within onedrive. Now I can’t remove it without destroying hundreds of file paths.
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microsoft setting edge as default browser after someone has set another browser as the default should be illegal
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No way chips are getting cheaper. Every time the tech industry gets a new, better, cheaper manufacturing process, the savings are turned directly into profits. At BEST they decide to keep the prices the same for a while longer.
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When I used windows (I use linux now), I denied the system write and read access to the edge folder, so every time it updated or booted, I'd be greeted with a delightful error popup instead of edge. It brought me great satisfaction and a sense of justice to see windows whine like that, like an entitled brat whining because they couldn't get what they wanted.
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lol, guys I demonstrated and submitted to Microsoft a video screen capture of tabs AND signed in credentials being carried across from a signed out profile to a new one created. This is a level of security vulnerability that is off the charts.
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I installed W11 recently. jesus christ, the amount of disgusting dark patterns they use to setup your device the first time is shocking
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Perhaps you can report on the disaster that is the new AI in Windows Defender that’s randomly deleting executables because AI determined they are random viruses despite being legitimate apps. Instead of doing the proper work required to actually detect a virus now Microsoft is taking the same awful approach that’s taken to SPAM to what’s on your pc.
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Edge has like 200 separate settings to change in order to disable some of its privacy sucking features. I’m not convinced it is possible to disable it completely
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Move to Firefox and give the finger to both Chrome and Edge
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Microsoft Edge always be hiding there in my task manager... Even after blocking it with regedit and the command line, it's still there and ALWAYS comes back.
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Weird the Edge stealing Chrome data is just being reported on. This has annoyed me on plenty of PC's for a while. Glad its finally being talked about though.
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I like the idea of having to launch Edge to disable the auto-launching and data scraping edge 'feature'. Are they that desperate for usage %?
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Today I connect to a windows system that provides the full engineering interface to a drive system that controls over a dozen 480VAC servos manipulating components of a 150-ton mechanical assembly (because the original developers of this system made a terrible platform choice) ... I connect and instead of finding the UI panel, I see Edge nearly full screen showing ads for Valentine's Day gifts. We're almost entirely a Linux shop, and such moments reinforce why that is.
