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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 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.