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Microsoft Edge could use a win (i.postimg.cc)

submitted 1 year ago by ZeroCool@feddit.ch to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] zaph@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Make sure you go into the settings and turn everything off. It'll run in the background and do God knows what even though you've turned off startup.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 year ago

And then on next update go turn it off again, since they'll enable everything again. Rinse and repeat for eternity. Or switch to Linux and be done with their shenanigans.

[–] normonator@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you sped through edge's first launch wizard recently it's now scraping your browsing data from other browsers.

[–] zaph@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah I think they learned that from wavebrowser