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Research Finds Microsoft Edge Has Privacy-Invading Telemetry
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<blockquote data-quote="Marko :)" data-source="post: 866133" data-attributes="member: 39702"><p>To be honest, I have nothing against telemetry if it doesn't send any data that could be used to identify the user and if it's really being used to enhance the product (and not for selling data to 3rd parties). Company has to be fully transparent to get my trust.</p><p></p><p>There are few reasons why I don't trust Microsoft;</p><p>1. Up until Windows 10 version 170x (don't remember exactly what version), we didn't know what data telemetry really sends. After a while, they released the list containing code strings which are collected. The problem is that average computer user still doesn't know exactly what data is collected as the published list can only be understood by the developers.</p><p></p><p>2. Microsoft uses telemetry to enhance Windows and yet Windows Updates are still more buggy than ever. Windows 7 got telemetry too (when Windows 10 came out) even though the OS itself wasn't in active development.</p><p></p><p>3. They were using malware-like tactics to get users to install Windows 10. They pushed users to install Windows 10. They even made Windows 10 recommended update so huge number of people simply woke up to the new OS. Some even lost their data because the installation was broken.</p><p></p><p>4. And last, more recent. The new Edge was caught sending full URLs of visited websites and tying them to user account IDs. Sure, Microsoft stopped tying URLs to user accounts, but full URLs are still being collected.</p><p>Check out <a href="https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-10-smartscreen-sends-urls-and-app-names-to-microsoft/" target="_blank">more information</a> regarding this on Bleeping Computer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marko :), post: 866133, member: 39702"] To be honest, I have nothing against telemetry if it doesn't send any data that could be used to identify the user and if it's really being used to enhance the product (and not for selling data to 3rd parties). Company has to be fully transparent to get my trust. There are few reasons why I don't trust Microsoft; 1. Up until Windows 10 version 170x (don't remember exactly what version), we didn't know what data telemetry really sends. After a while, they released the list containing code strings which are collected. The problem is that average computer user still doesn't know exactly what data is collected as the published list can only be understood by the developers. 2. Microsoft uses telemetry to enhance Windows and yet Windows Updates are still more buggy than ever. Windows 7 got telemetry too (when Windows 10 came out) even though the OS itself wasn't in active development. 3. They were using malware-like tactics to get users to install Windows 10. They pushed users to install Windows 10. They even made Windows 10 recommended update so huge number of people simply woke up to the new OS. Some even lost their data because the installation was broken. 4. And last, more recent. The new Edge was caught sending full URLs of visited websites and tying them to user account IDs. Sure, Microsoft stopped tying URLs to user accounts, but full URLs are still being collected. Check out [URL='https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-10-smartscreen-sends-urls-and-app-names-to-microsoft/']more information[/URL] regarding this on Bleeping Computer. [/QUOTE]
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