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Re:Microsoft bakes a VPN into Edge and turns it on by marcosdumay on Friday September 30, 2022 @04:13PM (#33040152)
If it was good for you, Microsoft would the the one announcing it. Loudly and repeatedly. They would do it even if it was harmful, but there existed some artificial narrative where it sounds good.

You are hearing it from a third party exactly because they couldn't construct any explanation minimally realistic that sounded good.

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Re:Microsoft bakes a VPN into Edge and turns it on by ratg13 on Friday September 30, 2022 @06:14PM (#33041480)
They haven't announced it yet because it hasn't been released. Reading the article, it does sound pretty decent.

Partnership with cloudflare, selectively enables when you are connected to untrusted networks like public wifi.

Pretty much the only downside is that they turn it on by default... which is always tricky when most of your target audience is not computer savvy in the least.

How to give people security features that they have to figure out themselves when they can barely open the browser .. a dilemma for the ages.

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