Microsoft Edge now steals your data from Google Chrome after an update

https://9to5google.com/2024/01/30/microsoft-edge-chrome-data-update-windows/

by doener • 2 years ago

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johndunne• 2 years ago

There's already a discussion going on over at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39201317

whyoh• 2 years ago

And the one from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39179929

waynesonfire• 2 years ago

It's disgusting we let this garbage, greedy, company eat 200 billion worth of revenue from the tech industry. It's like a Walmart moving into a small town.

lnxg33k1• 2 years ago

That would be comparable i think if the walmart employee would be kidnapping people outside of other shops and taking them into a walmart :0

kylebenzle2• 2 years ago

But people ARE still willingly walking into Walmart (Microsoft) that's what I don't get when the alternative is better and free.

jayknight• 2 years ago

In this case, though, it's like Walmart building a store that encloses an existing Target.

orev3• 2 years ago

I wonder if Google could respond to this by encrypting all the data (of course the decryption key would also have to be local somewhere on the machine), and then making a complaint against Microsoft under the DMCA if they tried to extract the key and decrypt the data, bypassing the “copy protection”.

LeonB2• 2 years ago

It would harm accessibility for one thing.

orev3• 2 years ago

Encrypting data on the disk has nothing to do with displaying it in the browser where accessibility tools would be used.

Zren• 2 years ago

The tools to decrypt the user data folder in chrome would quickly be available to edge since theyre both chromium forks.

All edge needs to do is tell the chromium code to load from the google profile at startup, then change the profile directory after loading to save it to make the copy.

psyclobe2• 2 years ago

I will never trust Edge to honor ANY setting; every so often it tries to trick you into resetting all settings to default through the out of box wizard, this is totally built into the os! And even if you manage to make it through this periodic shit some windows update will go ahead and change some settings anyway so you're stuck. !

Its maddening!

kylebenzle2• 2 years ago

Honest question, why would anyone use a Microsoft product? I haven't touched windows in a decade, since windows 7 and am at a loss as to what benefit they offer.

I did have to use the online version of Teams for work and it was a nightmare.

psyclobe2• 2 years ago

Money for developing products on it. That's why I used it for decades anyway.

Microsoft Edge now steals your data from Google Chrome after an update

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