How to stop Edge Chromium phoning home?


  1. Posts : 318
    Windows 10 x64 bits
       #1

    How to stop Edge Chromium phoning home?


    Windows 21H1 (OS Build 19043.110)
    OOSU10 latest
    CCleaner latest
    PrivaZer latest

    After installing KB5004237 Edge Chromium is phoning home and I do know how to stop it

    Any suggestion?

    Thanks
    Camelia

    How to stop Edge Chromium phoning home?-edge.jpg
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  2. Posts : 23,197
    Win 10 Home ♦♦♦19045.4291 (x64) [22H2]
       #2

    camelia said:
    Windows 21H1 (OS Build 19043.110)
    OOSU10 latest
    CCleaner latest
    PrivaZer latest

    After installing KB5004237 Edge Chromium is phoning home and I do know how to stop it

    Any suggestion?

    Thanks
    Camelia


    For me... I just blocked Edge in my Bitdefender firewall.
    It can't "phone" anywhere now.
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  3. Posts : 1,026
    Win10 Version 21H2 19044.1645
       #3

    camelia said:
    Windows 21H1 (OS Build 19043.110)
    OOSU10 latest
    CCleaner latest
    PrivaZer latest

    After installing KB5004237 Edge Chromium is phoning home and I do know how to stop it

    Any suggestion?

    Thanks
    Camelia

    How to stop Edge Chromium phoning home?-edge.jpg

    Article below may be of interest.

    (excerpts)

    But the most intrusive phoning-home features were found in the new version of Microsoft Edge and the official Yandex Browser.

    Prof. Leith says that in their "out of the box" states, Brave is by far the most private browser, sending back the fewest amount of information.

    "We did not find any use of identifiers allowing tracking of IP address overtime, and no sharing of the details of web pages visited with backend servers," he said.

    Brave deemed most private browser in terms of 'phoning home' | ZDNet
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  4. Posts : 6,839
    22H2 64 Bit Pro
       #4

    Okay so you ignored earlier advice on Ccleaner settings. Summary is no good.

    How to stop Edge Chromium phoning home?-settings-ccleaner.png

    How to stop Edge Chromium phoning home?-edge-ccleaner.png

    I launched Edge Chromium and it doesn't phone home for me. Where exactly is it connecting to?


    How to stop Edge Chromium phoning home?-essential-nettools.png

    For me it connects to:
    cloudflare
    google
    qwant
    amazon
    fastly
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  5. Posts : 6,839
    22H2 64 Bit Pro
       #5

    FYI. The article that you linked probably refers to Legacy Edge not Chromium Edge given the date of the article.
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  6. Posts : 318
    Windows 10 x64 bits
    Thread Starter
       #6

    Ghot said:
    For me... I just blocked Edge in my Bitdefender firewall.
    It can't "phone" anywhere now.
    My firewall is blocking it

    pericles said:
    Article below may be of interest.

    (excerpts)

    But the most intrusive phoning-home features were found in the new version of Microsoft Edge and the official Yandex Browser.

    Prof. Leith says that in their "out of the box" states, Brave is by far the most private browser, sending back the fewest amount of information.

    "We did not find any use of identifiers allowing tracking of IP address overtime, and no sharing of the details of web pages visited with backend servers," he said.

    Brave deemed most private browser in terms of 'phoning home' | ZDNet

    Callender said:
    FYI. The article that you linked probably refers to Legacy Edge not Chromium Edge given the date of the article.


    OK, I just had to clean deeper, no more Edge when I run CC

    Thank you all

    Edit: I installed an old version of Wise Disk Cleaner, this app makes the difference

    Camelia
      My Computers


 

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