Microsoft Edge has many convenient features to improve your browsing experience. However, some of those features raise privacy concerns. One, for example, sends images you view directly to Microsoft.
📰 "Korzystanie z systemu #Windows w dzisiejszych czasach oznacza znoszenie wielu, wielu zachęt do korzystania i kupowania innych produktów firmy #Microsoft. Niektóre z nich są subtelne, jak wbudowana przeglądarka #Edge sugerująca korzystanie z jej "zalecanych ustawień" po każdej większej aktualizacji. Niektóre nie są tak subtelne, jak testowanie "quizu", który zmusił niektórych użytkowników do wyjaśnienia, dlaczego próbują zrezygnować z aplikacji #OneDrive.
Osoby mieszkające w Europejskim Obszarze Gospodarczym (#EOG) - który obejmuje #UE i dodaje Islandię, Liechtenstein i Norwegię — wkrótce zmniejszą nachalność w swoich systemach #Windows11. Aby sprostać wymaganiom ustawy Komisji Europejskiej o rynkach cyfrowych, która ma wejść w życie w marcu 2024 r., Microsoft musi ułatwić odinstalowywanie swoich aplikacji, zmianę ustawień domyślnych i unikanie prób nakłaniania ludzi do korzystania z jego usług."
It's fucking insane how addicted corporations have become to #tracking everything you do, everything you look at, everything you type, everything you think about.
They've gotten so brazen about it. Shit like this - the #Microsoft#Edge browser routing every image through some "AI enhancer" that also tracks what you're viewing - is now a default setting. I suppose at least people who use Edge can opt out, for now, if they know to.
So, I was thinking about this video on Chrome/Edge accessibility. Basically, it shows that the memory and CPU hog isn't the screen reader, it's the browser/accessibility pipeline. And honestly, it shows how, once again, being disabled is expensive. Not only are we told from a young age that we'll need to work twice as hard as abled people in order to get to the same level as the abled person, and then get a job that pays about $9 an hour for factory type work, or $20 per hour for highly specialized tech knowledge work, we have to buy expensive technology that can allow us to give that 200% of ourselves to our job and lives. Like, you see us buying an iPhone 15 or 14? That's not, for almost all circumstances, as a status symbol. That's because accessibility is so unoptomized that it slows our devices down. Because we have to have modern devices, a good 8 GB RAM (minimum) on a laptop, or a modern A-series chip, or, hell, probably an M-series Mac, just to keep up. I'm not sure about the M-series Mac part as I've not spent enough time with one to see how it compares to my 2019 Intel Mac.
We see this a lot with Android phones. A sighted person may be able to get by with a $250 Samsung phone. But when I worked with one, I felt the lag with TalkBack acutely. We may be able to blame the phones, or the PC's, or Intel Macs. But then why does an Intel PC run just fine with NVDA? No, digital accessibility is all about software. If it can run well for a sighted person, it should run well for a blind person. And that's why I always say that the OS is at the root of all digital accessibility, followed of course by whatever you run above that stack, like the browser. So we have to work 200% more, buy a good 200% more expensive, and we're still slowed down. Do not praise us for overcoming these things. Help us by eliminating the need to overcome them in the first place!!
Which is the best browser for #productivity? #Privacy? Customization?
This comparison will help solve this mystery 💪
#Speed, #usability, and #security are important factors to consider when comparing web browsers. However, choosing the best #webbrowser requires taking more factors into consideration.
Really hate to do this, but #Edge once again made my new tab page open in "content visible" mode with all the junk news displayed. I will be moving off it as my default browser. Really wish #Safari still worked on Windows, because now I have to resort to #Chrome since it works everywhere I do.
And to the Edge team: please, for customers' sake, do not mess with someone's settings. You lost all my open tabs on iOS once and now this. I will miss vertical tabs :-(
Ci sono più motivi, alcuni più controversi di altri ma uno che mi sembra ugualmente condivisibile è questo: manteniamo per tutti la possibilità di scegliere.
Microsoft "News" sucks. -- I'm not going to sugar coat it.
I do not care what Fox "news" has to say.
While Microsoft claims that you can block their nonsense, when you visit your personalization settings after doing so, they claim there is nothing blocked. 🙄
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