What a perfect list of reasons not to use Edge.
- bullshit
- spying on your web traffic
- spying on your entire pc and causing ram to be unaffordable
- ???
4: “Pwetty Pwease 👉👈”
If this wasn’t the top answer, i would have been very disappointed
“Built in VPN” Yeah how about no. I’ll stick with mullvad + waterfox
I read a while ago that they busted some hacker kid who used a secure VPN, because they leaked some Windows installation ID or whatever.
You mean telemetry? They didn’t leak anything. They just chose to use their personal fucking windows machine for said hack.
Yes, it was a stupid mistake. Doesn’t change the definition of “leaking” (as in: information got out that the person supplying the info didn’t want to get out), though.
What information? There was no leak, he was identified by telemetry id which overlapped with multiple previous offences.
What information?
You answered your own question already. He leaked identifying information (his telemetry id) himself.
If you’re holding out a big ass sign “Hi I’m X” then someone finding out that you’re X isn’t exactly a leak, innit
It’s more like you didn’t notice that the sign is dangling from your shoelaces.
No? Microsoft cooperated with the cops to match the ids and identified him. He did not just give out his id like a business card.
Ob-iously, he left identifying information at his target. So he leaked it.
An information leak is a leak, even if it’s not happening to a company.
No, it wasn’t your average telemetry (although I’m sure they could also find a person only with the massive telemetry footprint they get). It was a specific device ID unique to every computer, that Windows pings to Microsoft every once in a while. So, as long as you’re using Windows, Microsoft can still follow you through your VPN without needing to delve into the telemetry data. I’m sure they make a very responsible use of that feature.
Well yes, thats exactly my point. Every telemetry is tagged with it, there is no average or advanced telemetry. Don’t give a pass to microslop.
Edge VPN: Instead of Patricia from marketing, your traffic will be analyzed by Sam from security.
For me, “earn rewards” is really important.
I doomscroll on 3 different platforms, I view xxx-sites, I check the weather, I buy a shower mat.
I should be rewarded!
(What is the reward exactly?)
Windows 10 extended security updates
You say that, but they let you link it to work account! I have so far gotten £40 of vouchers just casually doing nothing special.
Edge does work a lot better in MS 365 environment and it’s work… so i can live with it.
I definitely trust Microsoft as a VPN provider.
Still so weird to me that from all their products they have killed over the years the Rewards are still “living”.
Blue and green logo: ✅
Name is Edge: ✅
I knew an idiot who used Bing Rewards as a reason to use Edge, saying you were stupid to not use it, since you got paid to browse and were getting free stuff. I mean, why even browse if you’re not getting paid? Why not be a digital serf for our tech overlords?
All their reasons or “benefits” are used to track you and sell your info lol.
Anything Microsoft recommends works in the opposite way, you should not trust. Same as opposite day!
There’s a legit use for Edge: if I have to test out how a website looks on Chromium, I don’t need to install Chrome, yay.
For everything else, there’s Firefox though.
Your websites dont look the same in both?
Edge uses the same rendering engine as Chrome. Web devs need to check to make sure different browsers respond to CSS, JavaScript, HTML, etc. the same way, as they all don’t necessarily do so, even though they should.
Well that’s the neat part, they do, so I rarely need to test them!
Alright, the red circle is extra unnecessary in this case
chrome checks all those boxes too. - the vpn.
It is nice ✅
As have I.
