Questionable Study Claims Edge "has more privacy-invading telemetry than other browsers"

HotCakeX yeah, the articles I linked from Windows Central and ZDNet contain this same quote from Microsoft's spokesperson. As far as you and I are concerned: end of story. However, if you read the article from ZDNet, you'll see how the lack of a follow-up study proving this statement leaves the door open to continue attacks on Edge privacy.

Immediately after the Microsoft response you cite, Chris Matyszczyk of ZDNet responds: "So that settles it. Surely you're regularly turning your permissions on and off. Or perhaps not." Implying one would have to regularly turn permissions on and off doesn't even make sense since you and I know—even if hardware UUID were transmitted, the data would only have to be removed once and permission to send that kind of telemetry would only have to be disabled once. But that doesn't stop doubters from having a field day with this residual ambiguity.

I didn't write this post to convince people like you. I'm suggesting a stronger response might be needed for the general public at a critical stage when millions of less knowledgeable and impressionable users may be reconsidering Edge as their default browser.

P.S. I'm already familiar with all the settings you just added. You're preaching to the choir. 😉

P.P.S. Here's the relevant Microsoft Edge privacy reference, so someone won't feel the need to post that as well. The point is, a typical user will not go as deeply into this as most of us here in the Insider program. That's why I feel the source of all this controversy—the study itself—needs to be debunked with a follow-up test proving it wrong.