Call it a low quality comment, but any site that displays a full screen email sign up immediately loses credibility and cannot claim to be a solution for the problems discussed.
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They also ask for donations but I've not been able to find any information on who they are or what they use the money for.
Googling the names of the authors I just find stories at the site, or blogspam at other sites based on those stories. Most of what they cover has already been covered at more well known sites whose ownership and authorship information is more open.
Microsoft doesn't like taking "no" for an answer. No matter what setting or app you try to get out of your way, they default it back at some point to bother you. No, I'm not going to use Edge. No, I don't want to send feedback on Teams, but since you'll never just leave me alone, I'll keep giving you terrible reviews saying to leave me alone and quit asking, etc.
Leaving Microsoft aside, maybe that data should be encrypted/ unaccessible to begin with. That would be another paradigm (e.g. android has app isolation afaik)
You really can't hide information from the operating system while expecting to also use that information in the same OS you're trying to hide it from.
The problem isn't that the data is available. It simply has to be available if you are to use it. The problem is that your OS is now a virus all on its own. The OS is not a threat vector you can easily mitigate without just using a different OS.
You can practically because reality isn't binary, it would be much harder and perceived much worse by the public if MS hacked into your password manager and imported all passwords to its cloud just because the OS knows your passwords since OS unlocks your manager
>You really can't hide information from the operating system
why should tab information from Chrome be exposed to the OS to begin with? Of course an executable can prevent leaking unencrypted data. But we're not even talking about this in a 'hard' sense here. Edge is likely just using some API or export feature or reading some history file. Of course browsers can prevent this.
Quite literally everything is exposed to the OS. It can't really be any other way. If it weren't exposed to the OS, then you can't access it either.
Any protection mechanism you're imagining is managed by the OS. You trust it to enforce file permissions, to enforce memory isolation, to prevent a rogue program from snooping on data as it's unencrypted. You can't hide these things from the OS because the OS is the only thing that can hide data.
The OS has full, unrestricted control of the hardware at a level much deeper than you do. The OS can just read your encrypted data from 'secure' memory. It has to be, otherwise you couldn't read it. The OS can access any file because it has block level access to all drives.
And there's not one single thing you can do about it. There's absolutely nothing stopping your OS from spying on you in this way.
Unless you use an open source OS which can be proven to not do bad things.
Microsoft Edge is not an OS. Firefox allows encrypting passwords under a "Master" password, that renders files written to disk unavailable for other apps. Yes, the OS can read from memory when you open it. Yes, the OS can have a keylogger, Trojan horse, and everything. That's beside the point. Security hardening could be and should be in place by vendors (Mozilla, Chrome). In some OSes it would work better than others, okay. We can live with that.
I have it to be honest, at first I thought it was a good idea, but then having y history in a software I wasn't using that's just not it.. they should remove that feature....
If only it stayed on user's system. Likely MS makes a 'backup' on its servers. Verizon used to do it. With each update they turned on backup option and siphoned contacts before user could react.
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