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nixCraft 🐧 @nixCraft@mastodon.social
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Microsoft Edge is starting to annoy me big time www.dedoimedo.com/computers/microsoft-edge-personalized-web-got-it-annoyance.html The Ads aren't just in Edge. The whole Windows has gotten out of control with Ads and trackers everywhere. Microsoft is obsessed with Ad revenue in the Paid operating system.
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nixCraft 🐧 @nixCraft@mastodon.social
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Recently, not only Microsoft but Apple has also started to display more Ads in their App Store. Unfortunately, there is currently no option to disable these Ads. They are willing to adopt the advertising business models of Google and Facebook to maintain their trillion-dollar valuations. It's a disappointing situation.
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nixCraft 🐧 @nixCraft@mastodon.social
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Microsoft Edge caught leaking every website you visit to Bing 9to5google.com/2023/04/26/microsoft-edge-bing-urls/ You need to turn off this feature. No idea why they are transmitting every website you visit to Microsoft. Just privacy nightmare.
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🪨 @Varpie@peculiar.florist
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@nixCraft My guess is indexing new pages (no need to build a web crawler if you can use people who crawl organically), potentially improving their ranking system (having real user data on which pages are more visited) and maybe ML training.

In any case, it's a big fat no from me.
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