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Hey, everyone! Thanks so much for this discussion, we've learned a lot from your comments. We'd like to first make it clear that we do not plan to integrate Google services into Microsoft Edge by default. We are considering including an opt-in experience for users to attach their Google account to Microsoft Edge but are not ready to make a decision on it just yet.
I'd like to take this time to reiterate what Elliot posted back in November: One option available to you today to use a single user identifier across the various services you use is to create a new Microsoft Account using a @gmail address.
As you know, you can currently import your data from Chrome by going to edge://settings/importData. You can also sign into Google websites and remember your password in Microsoft Edge to reduce the number of times you need to sign in. Accessing your Microsoft Edge data on-the-go is easily done by signing into Microsoft Edge with a Microsoft account and syncing with Microsoft Edge across other devices and mobile.
As always, we will update here once we have more information. Please continue to provide your feedback and suggestions around this feature; the team will continue to review feedback even if we have moved something to Not Planned.
I think syncing between Microsoft Edge and Chrome should be removed as a person using Microsoft Edge should use Microsoft Edge and not Chrome as some people would start using Chrome and keep using Chrome without using Microsoft Edge and I want to see Market Share of this browser reaching heights and I am a fan of Microsoft Edge since it was released in Windows 10 Technical Preview in 2015 and I don't want to see again the failure of more people not using Microsoft Edge.
- 100% absolutely agree with this, just the truth
HotCakeX I'm puzzled why you're so hell-bent on opposing this. If Google sign-in did in fact get implemented, no one would be forcing you to use it—all your data wouldn't be magically sent to Google just because there's an option to use their services.
If it was offered, I would personally love to switch to Edge on Windows for performance reasons. However, I don't want to permanently move everything over to Microsoft just yet. For one, I don't like Edge's UI on Android and I don't want to maintain two disjoint sets of data for no good reason.
It doesn't even have to be built directly into the browser; if there was an additional first-party module or extension you could install by yourself, I would be all for it. The only reason why this has even been suggested is because this is ultimately a browser built by Google and the option to sync with their servers already comes with Chromium. Thus, your exaggerations of them adding support for Facebook or Twitter next are moot, on top of the glaring fact that they don't even handle browser data.
You can argue all day about Google's surveillance practices; I won't be defending them for any of it. However, even if we consider the idea that they mine your data, your bookmarks and passwords mostly certainly aren't included in that. On the same note, it is absolutely hypocritical for you to claim that Microsoft is suddenly such a champion of privacy and only means the best for its users. I'm not sure if you remember the entire Windows 10 telemetry fiasco or them forcing 3rd party apps down your throat on an OS you've paid for—both of which are still applicable and can't be entirely turned off to this day. If privacy is going to be your main defense, then you should be using Linux and Firefox, not Windows and Edge.
- I see that the problem goes with you apparently that you continue in a topic already closed long ago, if you want the services of google then go to chrome, do not make you so much problem, all collect information, some more than others. This is a Microsoft application that has its own accounts is not a small business, if both want to want google then go there, there are endless browsers that can give you what you want, only you choose, no one forces you to stay here.
