Significant performance improvements with Edge 134

Re:Significant performance improvements with Edge 134 by tonyhart7 on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @04:12AM (#43702818)

is it true or just some analytical data?

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Re:Significant performance improvements with Edge 134 by Dwedit on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @04:13AM (#43702828)

It was true in 2023, but I haven't found any updates on the story since then.

It was sending a request to the domain "bingapis.com" with HTTP referer of the current page. Thus, sending your URL to Microsoft. It was a feature that could be turned off, but was on by default.

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Re:Significant performance improvements with Edge 134 by tonyhart7 on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @04:48AM (#43703059)

how can this possible??? EU or DOJ should sue the fuck out of microsoft since its ON by default

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Re:Significant performance improvements with Edge 134 by thyristan on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @05:16AM (#43703241)

They should, yes. Don't know why DOJ doesn't. But in case of the EU, Microsoft is handled with very soft gloves in all aspects because corrupt idiotic bureaucrats on all levels can't imagine a life without their Windows, Outlook and Excel. So the throw their hands up in the air, cry "but there are no alternatives, we cannot do anything here" and continue their extended post-lunch-sleep.

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Re:Significant performance improvements with Edge 134 by jasonjayr on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @08:53AM (#43704876)

What is the feature that can be shut off ?

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Re:Significant performance improvements with Edge 134 by Dwedit on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @05:47PM (#43710770)

https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/25/23697532/microsoft-edge-b...

It's the "Show suggestions to follow creators in Microsoft Edge" feature.

But that's not the only time Edge has been caught with a feature that sends all your URLs to Microsoft:

https://x.com/scriptjunkie1/status/1152280517972299777 - "Anonymous" statistics sends your Windows SID along with the URL visited for the smartscreen feature

https://www.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/147rdv4/microsoft... - an Image Enhancement feature sends image URLs to Microsoft

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskNetsec/comments/96nwgd/microsoft... - With search suggestions enabled, search suggestions and URLs entered into address bar go to Microsoft regardless of which search engine is selected (Really, typing http: or https: ought to mean no suggestions generated at all)

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