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  • Meanwhile at Micro$oft

    From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to ALL on Wed Jun 14 17:07:00 2023
    This is borderline politics in the sense that it involves some privacy
    issues, but Big Brother in this case is not the FBI but rather Micro$oft.

    SOURCE: Neowin https://www.neowin.net/news/edge-sends-images-you-view-online-to-microsoft-here-
    is-how-to-disable-that/

    https://tinyurl.com/bdeh59xh

    So without user knowledge, M$-Edge, Micro$oft's replacement for Internet Explorer, sends images that you view online via the browser back home to Micro$oft. Also mentioned is a "bug" that leaked your personal information
    to Micro$oft's Bing search engine.

    The browser may warn you now that the photo enhancement gimmick involves sending the photos to M$ but it did not originally, even though it was
    sending the data even then.

    The site I found the message on, osnews.com, suggested the best fix is to
    stop using Edge. We are forced to use it at work but, as all of my home machines are *nix machines, it is not used here. :)


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  • From IB Joe@1:342/200 to Mike Powell on Wed Jun 14 17:39:18 2023
    All your articles were great!!!

    IB Joe, Pronouns (FJB/LGB)
    AKA Joe Schweier
    SysOp of Joe's BBS
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  • From Ron L.@1:120/616 to Mike Powell on Thu Jun 15 07:29:34 2023
    Mike Powell wrote to ALL <=-

    The site I found the message on, osnews.com, suggested the best fix is
    to stop using Edge. We are forced to use it at work but, as all of my home machines are *nix machines, it is not used here. :)

    With Windoze 2000, it became clear that Microsoft's attitude was that "you are using Microsoft's computer and that they can do anything they want." It was just a little later that I became a Linux user.


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  • From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to IB JOE on Thu Jun 15 14:53:00 2023
    All your articles were great!!!

    Thanks!


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