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<blockquote data-quote="JordanMason8" data-source="post: 975908" data-attributes="member: 94364">Hi,first of all thank you for providing HC. It&#039;s a wonderful tool and makes things a lot easier. I got a few questions, maybe someone can help me out.I am trying to find a balance between privacy and security. Are there a any settings, which could be changed from the recommended settings, which increase privacy more, than they decrease security?I am thinking about something like SmartScreen for MS Edge, which first checks URL&#039;s on a local list and if it&#039;s not found in the top visited websites, it will send the URL, infos about the website and a device ID to Microsoft. I wonder how much of my browsing history is being sent to Microsoft this way and if it is really worth using SmartScreen on Edge. What would you recommend? Is there also a possibility to only allow local checks?I tried to use the Microsoft Diagnostic Data Viewer, to get a feeling about how much data is being sent to Microsoft, but somehow it always shows, that I don&#039;t have access to this data. Is this a known problem with HC?What does &quot;Edge (not Chromium)&quot; under &quot;Smartscreen&quot; mean in the HC ConfigureDefender menu? I thought Edge is always based on Chromium? It is set to block, but I somehow can deactivate SmartScreen in the MS Edge settings. Is this a bug, or did I misunderstand the meaning of this setting?My HC setup is: recommended settings in the main menu, ConfigureDefender on Max and FirewallHardening with all 4 available lists added to block.Thanks in advance. Best regards</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JordanMason8, post: 975908, member: 94364"] Hi, first of all thank you for providing HC. It's a wonderful tool and makes things a lot easier. I got a few questions, maybe someone can help me out. I am trying to find a balance between privacy and security. Are there a any settings, which could be changed from the recommended settings, which increase privacy more, than they decrease security? I am thinking about something like SmartScreen for MS Edge, which first checks URL's on a local list and if it's not found in the top visited websites, it will send the URL, infos about the website and a device ID to Microsoft. I wonder how much of my browsing history is being sent to Microsoft this way and if it is really worth using SmartScreen on Edge. What would you recommend? Is there also a possibility to only allow local checks? I tried to use the Microsoft Diagnostic Data Viewer, to get a feeling about how much data is being sent to Microsoft, but somehow it always shows, that I don't have access to this data. Is this a known problem with HC? What does "Edge (not Chromium)" under "Smartscreen" mean in the HC ConfigureDefender menu? I thought Edge is always based on Chromium? It is set to block, but I somehow can deactivate SmartScreen in the MS Edge settings. Is this a bug, or did I misunderstand the meaning of this setting? My HC setup is: recommended settings in the main menu, ConfigureDefender on Max and FirewallHardening with all 4 available lists added to block. Thanks in advance. Best regards [/QUOTE]

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