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RORWessels
Apr 08, 2019Brass Contributor
Dubious but willing to give it a shot.
I just loaded the latest Canary build for the "new" Edge browser. However, I do have some questions. What is MSFT doing to ensure that my browsing data is not being sent back to Google as I use thi...
- Apr 17, 2019Howdy, I work on the "No Exhaust" team at Edge.
To your question: The Edge team has audited all of the Chromium code for outbound network traffic and replaced calls to Google with Microsoft services, or removed the calls entirely. The Chromium code is amenable to such inspection because there are "Network Annotations" made for their network calls (so that IT admins, regulators, etc, can understand why network requests are being made and what is done with the data). My team has a variety of tools that we use for ongoing monitoring of changes going into Chromium that result in new network traffic.
Now, that's not to say your traffic *can't* go to Google depending on how you use your browser, of course. For instance, if you navigate to a Google site or property, your browser obviously will communicate with Google. If you configure your default search engine to be Google, your queries will go to Google. More subtley, if you enable Edge to use the Google Web Store for browser extensions, when your browser checks for updates to those extensions, it will do so by consulting with the Google web store.
athosbr99
Apr 08, 2019Copper Contributor
I am too in the hopes of getting a dark theme for this browser. Didn't find any mention of it in the configs.
- Neil HaskettApr 09, 2019Copper Contributor
athosbr99
edge://flags/#edge-follow-os-theme
athosbr99 wrote:I am too in the hopes of getting a dark theme for this browser. Didn't find any mention of it in the configs.
edge://flags/#edge-follow-os-theme - rsfarrisApr 08, 2019Iron Contributor
athosbr99 I should have mentioned this in my reply before. Dark theme is available in the flags, and is mentioned elsewhere as coming in the future. I'll also note that I turned it on in my flags and switching between light and dark theme in Windows settings (in 19h1 insider) actually changes the browser too. Which is cool and good forward thinking with that.