• leds@feddit.dk
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    1 year ago

    Microsoft Edge submits the following data to Microsoft cloud services using a HTTPS connection:

    The text of the webpage.
    

    Interesting , this has implications for pages that are not on public internet. Viewing confidential/secret company documents in edge?

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      1 year ago

      You left out the important bit before that:

      When users enable “include related matches in Find on page”, Microsoft Edge submits the following data to Microsoft cloud services using a HTTPS connection:

      Seems like nothing gets sent if you do a normal exact search.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah but isn’t that what the whole article is about? And is it enabled by default or opt in?

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        1 year ago

        Future edge patch note:

        • Fixed bug where sometimes edge would send pages to MS cloud despite local search only being enabled

        Haha j/k, there won’t be a patch note, and the fix will probably be a heuristic to determine if the user isn’t a security expert analyzing their traffic to determine if it’s sending more than it should be, with it defaulting to off until that heuristic reports a hit.