microsoft edge It is a web browser that gives one lime and the other sand. Adding things like simplified privacy settings and Video Super Resolution, adding policies that enforce its use against user choice, and a bug that caused nearly every URL visited to be sent to Bing. Now the Redmond giant has found itself in a different puddle because it accepts images that are displayed through its web browser.

In case it’s not clear, we’ll say it backwards: Edge sends Microsoft the images that the user views through it. If we dive into the details, the origin is in the characteristic, super resolution, which, according to the description provided by the application itself, allows to improve the quality of images through colors, lighting and contrast.

A super-resolution feature to improve the quality of images viewed through Microsoft Edge sounds very nice, but everything was spoiled when recent updates to the browser’s Canary channel revealed more information about how it actually works, as it started recommending sending images to Microsoft to enhance them instead to do this process locally.

“Enhance Images” feature in Microsoft Edge stable feed.

The sad thing is that super resolution is not a feature that recently arrived in the Microsoft Edge Canary channel, but it is present in the stable channel and is also enabled by default, which apparently pissed off a lot of people because it’s an alleged violation of user privacy by Microsoft. This is where the factor comes into play is that users usually move forward in the initial configuration without first reading what they are accepting or activating, although if it turns out that there is a lack of transparency in this regard, the company will not get rid of its part. guilt.

To disable image enhancements in the Microsoft Edge stable feed, you need to open the app’s Settings, go to the “Privacy, Search and Services” section and scroll down until you find the “Enhance Microsoft Edge Images” option. In the Canary channel, the route is the same, but “Enhance Microsoft Edge images” is a subsection where the user can set up sites whose images they do not want to see enhanced, which can be reached by typing the following into the address bar: edge://settings/privacy/enhanceImages

“Enhance images” feature in the Microsoft Edge Canary channel.

Microsoft appears to have taken the action following the controversy surrounding the super-resolution feature’s alleged lack of privacy, so users may consider it disabled after going through the standard web browser update process.