When users enable “include related matches in Find on page”, Microsoft Edge submits the following data to Microsoft cloud services using a HTTPS connection:
Seems like nothing gets sent if you do a normal exact search.
Fixed bug where sometimes edge would send pages to MS cloud despite local search only being enabled
Haha j/k, there won’t be a patch note, and the fix will probably be a heuristic to determine if the user isn’t a security expert analyzing their traffic to determine if it’s sending more than it should be, with it defaulting to off until that heuristic reports a hit.
You left out the important bit before that:
Seems like nothing gets sent if you do a normal exact search.
Yeah but isn’t that what the whole article is about? And is it enabled by default or opt in?
For now.
Future edge patch note:
Haha j/k, there won’t be a patch note, and the fix will probably be a heuristic to determine if the user isn’t a security expert analyzing their traffic to determine if it’s sending more than it should be, with it defaulting to off until that heuristic reports a hit.