[HN Gopher] Microsoft Edge Sucks Up Chrome Data Without Permission
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Microsoft Edge Sucks Up Chrome Data Without Permission
Author : LinuxBender
Score : 35 points
Date : 2024-02-02 19:09 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (reclaimthenet.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (reclaimthenet.org)
| sonicanatidae wrote:
| Wait.. Microsoft over-reaching?!?!?
|
| Perish the thought.
| Natsu wrote:
| Microsoft doesn't like taking "no" for an answer. No matter
| what setting or app you try to get out of your way, they
| default it back at some point to bother you. No, I'm not going
| to use Edge. No, I don't want to send feedback on Teams, but
| since you'll never just leave me alone, I'll keep giving you
| terrible reviews saying to leave me alone and quit asking, etc.
| sonicanatidae wrote:
| Luckily, we have the legal system in place, so when they step
| over lines, a pittance fine is leveraged.
|
| smh.
| devwastaken wrote:
| Call it a low quality comment, but any site that displays a full
| screen email sign up immediately loses credibility and cannot
| claim to be a solution for the problems discussed.
|
| Promote change through high quality, do not adopt the same
| tactics tech uses to spam people.
| snitch182 wrote:
| Although it is pretty agressive there is a 'no thanks' option
| .. then you can just read the article.
| heyoni wrote:
| I don't know what I would do without reader mode
| tzs wrote:
| They also ask for donations but I've not been able to find any
| information on who they are or what they use the money for.
|
| Googling the names of the authors I just find stories at the
| site, or blogspam at other sites based on those stories. Most
| of what they cover has already been covered at more well known
| sites whose ownership and authorship information is more open.
|
| It gives off a vibe as being scammy.
| fooker wrote:
| There goes Edge's edge!
| cod3ddy wrote:
| I have it to be honest, at first I thought it was a good idea,
| but then having y history in a software I wasn't using that's
| just not it.. they should remove that feature....
| sonicanatidae wrote:
| It's a great idea for users, but they left a key piece out.
|
| Permission.
|
| Users should have been able to enable/disable this, but as
| usual, that's not what happened.
| _emacsomancer_ wrote:
| More discussion at: https://9to5google.com/2024/01/30/microsoft-
| edge-chrome-data...
| ChrisArchitect wrote:
| [dupe]
|
| More discussion from earlier this week:
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39179929
| adr1an wrote:
| Leaving Microsoft aside, maybe that data should be encrypted/
| unaccessible to begin with. That would be another paradigm (e.g.
| android has app isolation afaik)
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