PrivacyGuides already has guides on configuring iOS, macOS, and non-Graphene Android in the Knowledge Base, which is different from the recommendations page. There is no reason Windows shouldn’t be right next to them.
The site also has recommendations for email services and clients even though email is inherently insecure, recommendations for Manifest V3 ad blockers even though Chrome isn’t recommended, recommendations for iOS security tools even though iOS isn’t recommended, etc.
You didn’t read my answer carefully enough. I said clearly that I want Edge recommendation to be allowed.
The reason is simple. Not all of Windows users can uninstall Edge and leave an unconfigured Edge on your Windows is Attack surface. Even if you use third party browsers you should configure Edge.
Considering it’s already about windows guide, we should just include a guide to force windows to think it’s an EU computer and allows us to uninstall edge, and then uninstall edge. Problem solved
@jonah You didn’t respond to my request to add Edge recommendation. Instead, you just submit a Windows Guide PR that contains rediculously wrong infomation such as
we would recommend using Windows 10 for as long as possible.
I’ve specifically made that change in #2606 as well as removed some of the “proprietary” stuff because it’s not really relevant. macOS is “proprietary” also, and this really has nothing to do with privacy.
The other part I am seeking information on there is:
Some privacy features in Windows 11 are locked to devices in the European Union. We have not yet found a way to reliably access those settings worldwide.
What features exactly are was the article talking about?
Some programs utilize the name of the pc or system’s product name link to identify users or when you use it across systems maybe add to the guide telling people to put more generic name
This thread just popped up again and it reminded me of something.
I installed Windows 11 Enterprise on a VM, followed the proposed guide and watched for a while. AdGuardHome still caught a few DNS request for “telemetry” urls. Unfortunately it’s been so long now that I don’t have the evidence anymore, or even remember the details. I wanted to Wireshark it for a while but ended up forgetting about it.
People suggest Edge because of security, definetly not privacy. If you’re OK with being hacked by professionals (ok, not hacked, MS and the NSA are more like your network admins), it lowers your chances of being hacked by amateurs. It’s called “security” lol.
By the JIT argument has been made outdated, as I understand all Chromium allow disabling it now.
Uninstalling edge is not what breaks microsoft store apps. These apps run on microsoft edge webview2 runtime instead, which is a separate app from Microsoft Edge. The only things uninstalling Microsoft Edge breaks is Copilot (which is probably what you want anyways), and the links in various windows apps which for some reason use a protocol that opens edge and edge specifically instead of your default browser (this can be fixed with MSEdgeRedirect).
They are using Edge to connect to their servers. My test was simple. I started streaming apps, like Paramount+ and it started Edge. I killed Edge from task manager and Paramount gone too.