Comment on Edge 118: updated on-page search may send data to Microsoft

leds@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

The text of the webpage.

• ryper@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You left out the important bit before that:

  When users enable “include related matches in Find on page”, Microsoft Edge submits the following data to Microsoft cloud services using a HTTPS connection:

  Seems like nothing gets sent if you do a normal exact search.

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  • leds@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah but isn’t that what the whole article is about? And is it enabled by default or opt in?

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  • SlikPikker@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    For now.

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  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Future edge patch note:

    • Fixed bug where sometimes edge would send pages to MS cloud despite local search only being enabled

    Haha j/k, there won’t be a patch note, and the fix will probably be a heuristic to determine if the user isn’t a security expert analyzing their traffic to determine if it’s sending more than it should be, with it defaulting to off until that heuristic reports a hit.

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