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Edge continues to be the only major browser with no end-to-end sync encryption
ragingrei I may be wrong, but actually i think it's more not implemented for now than we don't want to implement it.
Because for instance the sync isn't finished on stable one, so i definitely thing they will do it later but, not forget even if they do it, some data will be accessible by Microsoft employee.
But in my end i prefer Microsoft employee than Google employee/bot, because if Microsoft screw up their privacy they have a lot to loose (since Entreprise use them), where Google read openly your data whiteout any shame.
but i really thing they will implement it later (if the US law don't forbid them before).
Wittycat I'm not too sure why US law would forbid them from implementing proper e2e encryption if it allows every other major browser to do it.
I agree that I would much rather a Microsoft employee have access to my browser data than a Google employee, but the fact of the matter is that unless you have a weak key, they can't, whereas Microsoft, through Edge, can.
I don't think they're going to implement it unless they receive enough pressure. The fact that they updated their privacy page to include a lot of convincing-sounding talk about encryption, without actually doing it correctly, is very discouraging. It reads to me like they're trying to weasel their way out of it.
ragingrei For the us law i think about the earn it law and other attend from all surveillance country to break encryption.
For Microsoft i just think they need more time to finish the sync (and since they are the first a really implement correctly the passwordless it's even possible that data are already planned to be encrypted without entering a password.
but like i said on stable one, sync isn't finished so i definitely think e2ee will arrive when they will have finished and totally stabilized the sync feature.
ragingrei if you have access to it, you are a lucky person, because they have started the activation on dev very recently and me on stable it's disabled
So i will wait and i'm pretty sure they will provide e2ee but only a member of microsoft can say for sure if it's in development or even planed.