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Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 years ago by kixik@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] butter@lemmy.jamestrey.com 8 points 2 years ago

...gasp...shock

[–] aspensmonster@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Leaking." Yeah. Sure.

[–] raubarno@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Call the plumber! Edge and Windows have some leaky pipes...

[–] DestroyMegacorps@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Thats why i still hate microsoft browsers im just gonna stick with good old firefox

[–] rlaimondas@venera.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@kixik What is why I'm using already 3 years search.trom.tf

[–] kixik@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've also been using searx for quite some time, :)

[–] rhymepurple@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Doesn't seem to matter what search engine you use. Instead, this issue seems to impact people using the latest version of Edge.

Microsoft’s Edge browser appears to be sending URLs you visit to its Bing API website. Reddit users first spotted the privacy issues with Edge last week, noticing that the latest version of Microsoft Edge sends a request to bingapis.com with the full URL of nearly every page you navigate to. Microsoft tells The Verge it’s investigating the reports.

[–] Navaryn@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 years ago

tbh Bing can have them, tf are they going to do? be even more irrelevant?