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Microsoft Edge and Aloha caught sharing precise user location data with third parties (www.techradar.com)
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[–] SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 hour ago
  • A new Surfshark study found that over 50% of the top 15 mobile browsers collect user location data.
  • Microsoft Edge, Aloha, Yandex, and Phoenix collect precise location data, with Edge and Aloha openly sharing it with third parties.
  • Privacy-focused browsers like Tor, Brave, and DuckDuckGo do not collect app-level location data, proving that continuous tracking isn't technically necessary.

proving that continuous tracking isn't technically necessary

[–] ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 3 points 51 minutes ago

Never ever trust anything from Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta, X, TikTok for anything. Just don't use their software.

[–] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 hour ago

This is a marketing post.

[–] sompreno@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 hours ago

What really?