Okay, whatever, let’s try to clean this up. Clearly the first things I will want are Disney Plus and “SHOPPING”, plus whatever that ridiculous thing is that JB HiFi is selling. Does this just create some sort of ephemeral Edge account? I unchecked this box of course, and still ended up with all the other default settings I’m about to show you.Īfter completing the first-time setup, here’s the beautiful landing page you’re presented with. Note that the user I was testing this on doesn’t have a Microsoft account. On first launch Edge asks you off the bat whether you want to send a bunch of information to Microsoft. First let’s have a tour of these hostile defaults. At the end of this post I’ll explain why that is. I know this because I keep using it against my better judgement. The list of settings you have to change to keep Edge under control keeps getting longer. Edge has some very user-hostile defaults, at least for the type of user who doesn’t want extra ads and doesn’t want to send personal data to Microsoft just for funsies.ĭid you know that out-of-the-box, Edge will transmit the content of your text boxes on web pages to the Microsoft Editor service for the purpose of grammatical suggestions? I have no idea how this concept got past legal but hey, it’s on by default now.
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