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Edge Collections - Star To Collect - bad idea not to include a remove option
Adding my voice to the "This is horrible. Make it go way" Chorus.
More worrying is information which was private is now surfaced through
https://www.bing.com/saves
I had assumed that what was shared been my computer and phone via my Microsoft account was encrypted and not used by Microsoft, this is clearly not the case. Edge had been trustworthy. Now it isn't
jhoneill You hit the nail. It is not that they "modified" the collections screen. They left it there but it is inaccessible now, Collections points to something entirely different hosted on Bing. Not on Edge anymore.
It is that the collections stored on local edge (and synced between devices) were EXPORTED to Bing.
There are ways to bring the old collections but they don't sync anymore between devices. And if you turn on sync, they get exported again (no permission asked) to Bing. I just found out today while playing with permissions.
So, it's worse than initially thought. Everyone's collections were funneled away to Bing (without explicit permission) in the most sneaky way. And there is no way to move them back to local.
I just turned off every single permission all over Bing and Edge but will definitely look for a new browser, Chromium powered hopefully 😑
andres, exactly right.
I've just switched my desktop browsers back to Chrome on desktop and Safari on mobile and laptop. I fiddle around with Firefox too, but those three are all better choices than Edge at this point. It's just becoming stuffed with more and more garbage.
