{"id":39740,"date":"2023-06-14T14:34:31","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T18:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=39740"},"modified":"2023-06-14T17:32:42","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T21:32:42","slug":"microsoft-edge-sends-images-you-view-to-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/14\/microsoft-edge-sends-images-you-view-to-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Edge Sends Images You View to Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neowin.net\/news\/edge-sends-images-you-view-online-to-microsoft-here-is-how-to-disable-that\/\">Taras Buria<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/story\/23\/06\/12\/182216\/edge-sends-images-you-view-online-to-microsoft\">Slashdot<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.neowin.net\/news\/edge-sends-images-you-view-online-to-microsoft-here-is-how-to-disable-that\/\"><p>Not so long ago, Microsoft Edge ended up in hot waters after users discovered a bug leaking your browser history to Bing. Now you may want to toggle off another feature to ensure Edge is not sending every picture you view online to Microsoft.<\/p><p>Edge has a built-in image enhancement tool that, according to Microsoft, can use &ldquo;super-resolution to improve clarity, sharpness, lighting, and contrast in images on the web.&rdquo; Although the feature sounds exciting, recent Microsoft Edge Canary updates have provided more information on how image enhancement works.<\/p><p>The browser now warns that it sends image links to Microsoft instead of performing on-device enhancements.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/12\/microsoft-edge-removes-button-to-delete-cloud-data\/\">Microsoft Edge Removes Button to Delete Cloud Data<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/27\/microsoft-edge-leaking-browsing-history-to-bing\/\">Microsoft Edge Leaking Browsing History to Bing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/25\/ads-in-the-windows-11-start-menu-and-in-ios\/\">Ads in the Windows 11 Start Menu and in iOS<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taras Buria (via Slashdot): Not so long ago, Microsoft Edge ended up in hot waters after users discovered a bug leaking your browser history to Bing. Now you may want to toggle off another feature to ensure Edge is not sending every picture you view online to Microsoft.Edge has a built-in image enhancement tool that, [&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":"2023-06-14T18:34:33Z","apple_news_api_id":"39cd6e66-5b11-43b0-8faf-bdabc471c6c3","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-06-14T21:32:45Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AOc1uZlsRQ7CPr72rxHHGww","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":[30,32,2223,1458,355,96],"class_list":["post-39740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-13-ventura","tag-microsoft-edge","tag-privacy","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39740","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=39740"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39742,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39740\/revisions\/39742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}