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Microsoft Edge wants your Chrome data and is sneakily trying to get it (www.pcworld.com)

submitted 1 week ago by lemmee_in@lemm.ee to c/privacy@programming.dev

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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago

My Chrome data is basically:

2008:

Installed Chrome for the first time

5 min later

Uninstalled Chrome and went back to Firefox

[–] eluvatar@programming.dev 7 points 1 week ago

Jokes on them I use Firefox

[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lol at taking over open tabs from Chrome.

Does the default-enabled dialog happen in EU too? Seems unlikely to be GDPR conforming, which requires explicit, informed consent, with an equal decline option.

[–] GetOffMyLan@programming.dev 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

The site linked doesn't even conform to gdpr. No clear reject for cookies haha

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ok, I keep reading these types of post and have to say:

I've never had any of this shit happen to me at all. None of the weird advertising, no Edge ever doing anything, it any if the other claims of predatory behavior.

I'm always latest update of Windows, I have chrome and Firefox and have use cases for each. I use it daily. Who is this crap happening to?

[–] RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are you in the EU? A bunch of the stuff doesn’t happen here because of stricter regulations

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

I wish! But no

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

Just uninstall edge :P