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Re:Edge sends full URLs of pages visited to Microsoft by kabes on Sunday July 21, 2019 @11:04AM (#20491597)
Because google is any better? And engine-wise they're the same these days.
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Re:Edge sends full URLs of pages visited to Microsoft by hiciu on Sunday July 21, 2019 @11:14AM (#20491648)
because the rumor has it that "Edge sends full URLs of pages visited to Microsoft" and we haven't yet caught google in such embarrassing situation
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Re:Edge sends full URLs of pages visited to Microsoft by Yoric on Sunday July 21, 2019 @12:23PM (#20492049)
Well, by default, Chrome sends whatever you're typing in the URL bar to Google for auto-completion. No need to catch Google in such situation, it's a feature of Chrome.
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Re:Edge sends full URLs of pages visited to Microsoft by detaro on Sunday July 21, 2019 @12:53PM (#20492239)
Edge does that bit too. Things typed in the URL bar are only a small subset of "pages visited", typically would not include session IDs etc, ...
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Re:Edge sends full URLs of pages visited to Microsoft by Yoric on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @10:33AM (#20507016)
Fair enough.
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