Debra NutterApr 27, 2023
Wolfie Christl

"Microsoft Edge sends a request to bingapis .com with the full URL of nearly every page you navigate to"

Microsoft secretly tracks people across myriads of websites/apps via pixel. Now it was caught tracking them directly in the browser, by default. Wild.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/25/23697532/microsoft-edge-browser-url-leak-bing-privacy

Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing

Microsoft is investigating an issue with its Edge browser that is leaking the sites you visit to Bing. A new creator follow feature appears to have some privacy issues.

The Verge
Apr 27, 2023 at 11:13amMoa
Show threadYou S BluesApr 27, 2023
@wchr - Ten years ago I was working for a company that built a recommendation engine. After you made your selection we gave you a page with a unique url. On each page were 9 recs each with a unique URL related to the search and the rec. We tracked which rec you clicked on. In testing, it seemed as if we were double counting. Turns out, in less than 10 seconds after you clicked the link, we got the same request from Google Bot. Snatched out out the ether, they were.
Show thread2xfoApr 27, 2023

@wchr
I recall that Google sued Microsoft once because Google made junk search results and found Bing copied them. They claimed they were stealing proprietary data somehow. Microsoft explained that those were queries and results they monitored from user sessions in Internet Explorer and I think that was ok by the court.

I'm not surprised they would do it again

Show threadPhasorburnApr 27, 2023
@RnDanger Is that like fake telephone hook entries and map features to prevent 1:1 copying of the compilation in whole? That’s what came to my mind anyways.
Show thread2xfoApr 27, 2023
@phasorburn I think it was. They made garbage data that would be unique to their set because it was not useful for any other purpose besides being unique to their set.
Show threadMark MifsudApr 27, 2023

@wchr

Just another reason to download #vivaldi

That is how most smart people use Edge... to download another browser.

Show threadbirb refugee FKA wolfkittenApr 27, 2023
As if I needed another reason NOT to use Edge..
Show threadsome guyApr 27, 2023
@wchr Seems like a good reason not to install Edge. Unless only to use it for Bing. Of two minds over here.
Show threadLong Live MoonjoyApr 27, 2023
@wchr “hello this is bing’s annual ‘best of the web report’ and it seems the most popular website is ‘Google Chrome download’ followed by ‘Firefox download,’”
Show threadEpiphanic SynchronicityApr 27, 2023

@wchr

Edge and Chrome are the wrong browsers if you care at all about privacy.

Show threadthe_blackwell_ninja [EST]Apr 27, 2023
@wchr Every major American company is strip-mining us for data. Every single one.
Show threadBoxOfRainApr 27, 2023

@wchr @anildash
“Leaking” in the headline somehow doesn’t seem the right word for this.

“Shipping” perhaps?

Show threadDΛNIEL TʘMΛNApr 27, 2023
@wchr that is very bad.
Show threadCatweazleApr 27, 2023

@wchr, about Microsoft

https://themarkup.org/blacklight

Blacklight – The Markup

A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector

Show threadxmlns="Dan"Apr 27, 2023
@wchr full URL, with query params too?
Show threadshyduroffApr 27, 2023
@wchr … also zero surprise …
Show threadKris SamselApr 27, 2023
@wchr Latest Windows 10 Update gives users a transparent Bing search bar. I closed it. Very annoying. And more data stealing. 🔥 🖕🏽 MS
Show threadYet Water Was Apr 27, 2023

@wchr

Microsoft Edge: The most popular browser used for installing other browsers.

Show threadJosh CaluetteMay 13, 2023

@jpthuot03 @wchr @kikobar

Continuing the legacy of Internet Explorer... 🤣

Show threadlirosoApr 27, 2023
@wchr
Who on earth uses MS Edge at all (other than obliged MS employees)?
Show threadNerdahedronApr 27, 2023
@wchr Who the heck uses Edge?
Show threadSeirdyApr 28, 2023

@wchr Edge is a good browser once you change a million bajillion user-hostile default settings, and if you keep checking for new settings to disable each month.

But it’s a good browser once you wade through all that. No biggie, right? /s

Show threadshyduroffApr 28, 2023
@wchr … more zero surprise …
Show threadkira :3Apr 28, 2023
@wchr shit like this is why my day to day computing barely grazes windows now
Show threadElizabethApr 28, 2023
@wchr
I never use either Edge or Bing. I have very rarely, and not for years, encountered a site that won’t work properly without it.
Show threadnuclearfogApr 28, 2023
@wchr I'd be surprised if they don't do this
Show threadKinetixApr 29, 2023
@wchr

Narrator: There was nothing wild or surprising about this.
Show threadEnrique BarcelliMay 13, 2023
@wchr I don't know how to say... that I am not at all surprised by these news... 😂