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

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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