@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 By default, in order to show a "friendly" version of the copied hurl, the browser will silently perform a request to the url in order to get the page title.
@SPArcheon that's what WhatsApp, Telegram, etc are all doing, yeah.
So Microsoft making Edge to be like those apps now? Still don't think it's risky, unless of course they're sending all your cookies to the target site...
But hey it's Microsoft so... they might do just that. So I was wrong as usual, and you're right - you're not paranoid. @SPA
@SPArcheon It's also, unfortunately, typical for Microsoft. Doing a weird and probably uncecessarily complex solution that probably doesn't solve a problem many people have but introduces a whole new set of problems.
Like when you copy or paste text in Teams and they apply styling to it which is completely unnecessary.
At any rate, if you ever think "Is Microsoft wrong?", it's a very safe bet that the answer is "yes". In fact, I'd say you can just assume Microsoft is wrong for whatever they do and you'd be correct more times than you'd be wrong.
Yeah they copy what others do, but in a twisted and wrong way.
Their intentions are good; But the implementation? Far far away from good. lol
Small example, a weather widget in Windows 10. Some time ago it suddenly appeared in my task bar. Yellow circle with a number. Took me a while to understand it means "Sunny" with a temperature, and at first it seemed neat and working well.
But after few days I noticed it's showing random stuff... sometimes clouds; sometimes rain; one time it showed heavy snow.
And all the while, the place where I am and all the nearby area was in total and utter summer, no cloud, and over 30 degrees celcius every day.
So they can't make even this small widget right.
And no, I didn't change IP addresses, and they also have my location from my Microsoft profile.
All in all, just a really, utterly, crappy job on the widget.
@ShadowWizardIsVaccinatedV3 Another example: my internet went down. But I wanted wasn't sure yet, so I wanted to confirm - opened the start menu and typed in "cmd" so I can open it and do a ping. But...whole Start Menu was frozen. Because Win10 tried to load the widgets in there like weather, cortana, etc. But no internet = they don't load. Neither did the Start Menu for another 5 minutes. I guess until the network requests timed out.
@VLAZ yup. Whoever designed this just never bothered to learn about threads, synchronization, etc. They just go the most simple way possible.
It should be trivial to show the "base" menu first, with the programs to the left, and only then start loading all their fancy stuff. But no... they didn't want to waste dev time on such things. lol
@JourneymanGeek Oh, I did Win+R and opened CMD from there. But the Start Menu being broken still seems like a huge oversight. BTW, after 5 minutes when the Start Menu become responsive again it just fired all the events - I had pressed the Windows button several times and tried typing so it just closed and opened and had ghosts write in it.
I used to work in ecommerce and the horror stories I have heard from some of my former colleagues just regarding delays in the supply chain have been crazy. I feel bad for everyone working in customer-facing roles in that industry this time of year.
@SpencerG We have a mall full of PC stores. I literally had to cover the entire mall to buy ONE video card last year cause no one was apparently getting supplies ._.
Except the bigger stores, who wouldn't sell you a card, only a whole PC
@M.A.R. well - I'd actually blame the 80s and 90s
and a half baked understanding of lean engineering and the theory of constraints.
NO ONE CONSIDERED THAT JUST IN TIME PRODUCTION WOULD BREAK DOWN IF THE SUPPLY CHAIN DID...
then they basically put all the eggs in one basket. Sometimes different but unitary baskets (thailand and hard drives?)
@JourneymanGeek I am just waiting for the day where it will be easier to get graphics cards by buying a whole PC instead of the individual part. I swear it will happen at some point.
I love consoles. I game but not very avidly so grabbing a console and then upgrading to the latest every 5-6 years is great for me. I get that PCs are better. I just don't game enough for the time commitment to build one myself and to do the upkeep.
for me it's more... consoles get away with a lot of things that on PC, would drive me to just not deal with that company anymore... and i can make that decision because i'm not locked in by the console.
Always scary when a CM starts to respond to a comment I left under an answer two years ago: What did I do wrong this time? is the only thing that springs to mind ....
