Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing

Re:Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing by retSava on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @03:04PM (#35705123)

...which is pretty funny, since I'd assume that if I begin typing an url, I'd assume it would primarily search and use my local browsing history. But no, it gives more weight to sending me to a google search, presumably so google has the chance to show some ads to me. User-hostile design, not happy with it.

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Re:Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing by crazygringo on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @03:24PM (#35705382)

The address bar is a search box. All of my Google queries go through it. So of course I want it to autocomplete Google search results, not just my local history. Fortunately it does both and gets the balance pretty right. It's 100% user-friendly design for me, satisfied customer over here.

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Re:Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing by freehorse on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @05:45PM (#35707137)

I mean most people I know google "gmail" instead of typing "gmail.com" but I cannot see how this is an argument for being considered primarily a search box and not autocompleting "gmail.com", if anything kind of the opposite and all this is ridiculous.

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Re:Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing by silon42 on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @03:06AM (#35710401)

I get really annoyed, when the Firefox Home with the search input redirects my typing to the address bar.

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Re:Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing by bagacrap on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @03:34PM (#35705503)

History matches are regularly at the top of suggestions for me.

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Re:Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing by accoil on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @06:11PM (#35707419)

If you're using Firefox the keyword for controlling that is 'frecency'. Adjusting the values there in about:config will let you boost history and bookmarks.

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Re:Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing by bwat48 on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @06:18PM (#35707494)

This is why I use firefox, you can just un-check 'show search suggestions ahead of browser history in addressbar results'

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