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Microsoft Edge personalization and advertising manage settings disabled for users passively benefiting them

Author
wdormann
Date
24 May 2023

“In today’s episode of @darkpatterns : Microsoft Edge (of course!) If you click “Manage Settings”, you’ll note that Personalization & advertising is disabled. If you click the seemingly passive “Got it!”, you are telling the browser to CHANGE a setting to benefit MS financially.”