Learning to despise MS in all sorts of new ways....
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truth - everyone is sharing engines these days. However, Microsoft has started doing more of their historical antics. First, edge naturally assumes I want to share all of my history across all of my devices, etc. I really don't want to do that unless I really want too. Another example, for decades, default programs were driven by the control panel default programs area. MS in it's "wisdom" has now buried a default browser selection inside of Outlook. They are just f'ing around. Like when they moved Documents from your local drive to under the OneDrive.
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
Yeah they're really trying hard to push people to their services they're eventually going to want to charge extra for. I wonder if it's gonna take another lawsuit to get them to stop that. It's getting annoying to an extreme. I think the current strategy is to annoy people until they just give in.
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Assuming it's not just a cache issue from a previous visit... One of the things Microsoft always did with IE and now Edge was integrate it with Active Directory. You ever notice on some internal sites at work you don't have to login when using Edge but you do in other browsers? That's on purpose. That's usually through AD though, so just guessing even if it's a un-authenticated or non-domain login that peeps can still query enough data to get some account info in Edge regardless. It's supposed to be a "feature", but it's always been there in some form. Mo' Info IMO Firefox and Brave are the only browsers that even remotely pretend to care about your privacy. I say this as a dude who uses Chrome.
Jeremy Falcon
active directory and edge. what could go wrong? I can see doing that for corporate accounts - pushing the same complexity to personal users is just well Microsoft. Part of the problem with security, cross browser security, etc is that Microsoft never really ever fully implements the idea, just the marketing concept.
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
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On a whim, I recently introduced a non-technical neighbor of mine to the concept of profiles. She was constantly fighting web site auto-logins, where it would login as her husband when she meant to login as herself, and vice-versa. She almost instantly "got" the idea behind keeping different profiles, and *loves* the solution. No more manually logging out and then back in, and she can leave her different browser instances each running under a different profile and switch between the two with a single click. She's now saying this completely changed the way she uses a browser (and for the better).
hmm. Now, this is the absolute truth. The way I solved this problem is that it's my laptop, no touchy. Here's your laptop. :)
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
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hmm. Now, this is the absolute truth. The way I solved this problem is that it's my laptop, no touchy. Here's your laptop. :)
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.