Chrome and Edge’s advanced spell checker saves everything you type, even passwords

google chrome When microsoft edge both come When Advanced Spelling Tools: Bwood Since they are advanced (they don’t just help you spell check), All processing of grammar and language suggestions is done on the server.aAccording to a study by Ottothese services are basically transferring what you write in plaintext to a Google or Microsoft server —include Click the “Show Password” button to view the password. in this way video indicate:

Indeed, this is Google and Microsoft we are talking about. They are a big company that takes privacy seriously and have no interest in hacking your his Dropbox account.However, this is still glare Oversight, bad for user privacy. According to Otto’s same report, password managers like LastPass have already released fixes, but the browser issue hasn’t been resolved.

Thankfully, these features aren’t enabled by default, so you’re safe with your browser out of the box. However, if you’re using Chrome’s enhanced spell checker or Edge’s Microsoft editor, you should disable it immediately.

In Chrome, enter the following text in the URL bar and navigate to the appropriate location. chrome://settings/?search=enhance+spelling+check

Next, d“Enhanced spell check” feature.

In Microsoft Edge, the Microsoft editor is expansion. Click the extension icon from the toolbar and select “Manage extensions” section. Locate and tap the Microsoft Editor extension “delete.” From the popup, tap “delete” Also.

Until Microsoft and Google update their products with basic-level text encryption technology, we recommend that you do not use these advanced spell-checking and grammar tools. If you really need help with writing, we recommend using the following web editors: grammatically Also hemingway editor.

[Otto via BleepingComputer]