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Re:Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing by comte7092 on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @03:25PM (#35705393)
Even paid products do this kind of stuff these days.

At the end of the day, only legal requirements are going to curtail this type of behavior.

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Re:Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing by MathMonkeyMan on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @07:35PM (#35708105)
> If you're not paying for the product, you are the product.

> Even paid products do this kind of stuff these days.

Yes, if you pay for the product, then not only are you still the product, but you're a sucker as well.

It's not quite that stark, but I don't see why a company would truly change its business model just because they charge a fee. It's too tempting to "do something with all this data," i.e. treat all consumer software as spyware.

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