{"id":39705,"date":"2023-06-12T14:23:14","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T18:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=39705"},"modified":"2023-06-12T14:23:14","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T18:23:14","slug":"microsoft-edge-removes-button-to-delete-cloud-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/12\/microsoft-edge-removes-button-to-delete-cloud-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Edge Removes Button to Delete Cloud Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techdows.com\/2023\/06\/microsoft-edge-removes-reset-sync.html\">Venkat<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=36267087\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/techdows.com\/2023\/06\/microsoft-edge-removes-reset-sync.html\">\n<p>Starting version 114, Microsoft Edge, no longer offers &ldquo;reset sync&rdquo; button that deletes data from Microsoft Servers. The button has been replaced with &ldquo;Re-sync now&rdquo; option. So if you&rsquo;re privacy conscious, beware, there is no way to remove your Edge browsing data from Microsoft&rsquo;s cloud now.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>While Reset deletes sync data from Microsoft servers and re-syncs local browsing data with cloud when you turn on sync. Now, Re-sync just combines Edge&rsquo;s local browsing data with sync data stored on Microsoft Servers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However, you can use the special <tt>edge:\/\/sync-internals<\/tt> URL to access a hidden button to <strong>Clear Server Data<\/strong>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venkat (via Hacker News): Starting version 114, Microsoft Edge, no longer offers &ldquo;reset sync&rdquo; button that deletes data from Microsoft Servers. The button has been replaced with &ldquo;Re-sync now&rdquo; option. So if you&rsquo;re privacy conscious, beware, there is no way to remove your Edge browsing data from Microsoft&rsquo;s cloud now. [&#8230;] While Reset deletes sync [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-06-12T18:23:19Z","apple_news_api_id":"6346901d-a615-4e04-ac50-a5d5dd1b7780","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-06-12T18:23:19Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AY0aQHaYVTgSsUKXV3Rt3gA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[35,649,30,32,2223,1458,355],"class_list":["post-39705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-cloud","tag-esoteric-preferences","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-13-ventura","tag-microsoft-edge","tag-privacy"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39706,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39705\/revisions\/39706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}