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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...
- Howdy, 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.
RORWessels I ask this honestly; how can you be worried about your information going to Google but not Microsoft? What is the difference? Microsoft's telemetry collection is easily as extensive as Google's, and they use it for exactly the same thing: building a profile of you for service provision, and advertisement delivery.
vovchyk to me its that microsoft gives you options during the install and now lets you know that its happening instead of hiding it, in the lastest versions of windows you can disable presonalized ad tracking ID's duing the inital install and afterwards in the Settings app under privacy and even choose how much data you send to them for diagnostics, though there is no option for sending nothing which I wish they would add to calm the more parinoid individuals.