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Re:Edge sends full URLs of pages visited to Microsoft by mnutt on Sunday July 21, 2019 @11:40AM (#20491805)
Firefox Sync is quite different than Chrome's version; with Firefox your data is encrypted locally on your machine before it is synced.
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Re:Edge sends full URLs of pages visited to Microsoft by qieja on Sunday July 21, 2019 @12:34PM (#20492122)
That is also an option for Chrome.
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Re:Edge sends full URLs of pages visited to Microsoft by cjs_2 on Sunday July 21, 2019 @02:01PM (#20492668)
But not the default.
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Re:Edge sends full URLs of pages visited to Microsoft by staticassertion on Sunday July 21, 2019 @02:25PM (#20492829)
Are you sure about that? Certainly at least some of the synced information is encrypted before sync by default (passwords).
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