People who don't see the problem with Edge must all be domain joined or on Pro for Workstations / Enterprise. Other Chromium alternatives, like Vivaldi or Brave, are better, firstly because they aren't so adversarial. Seriously, Edge is just Microsoft's spyware and a piece of crap. Personally, I don't want my browser to tie me to certain online services. It's harder to use Edge without Bing or Microsoft's online services, than it is to use Chrome without Google. But in terms of what browser is more adversarial towards users, Edge is worse, IMO.Īnd Edge is hard-coded to use Bing. And also, they keep turning on that option for sharing your browsing history with Google, for the purpose of improving search. Don't get me wrong, Chrome is also cursed because with a passphrase, they don't synchronize all your history. ![]() Compared with Chrome, which at least supports an “encryption passphrase” that does e2e encryption. And in true Microsoft spirit, it also has telemetry, which you can't turn off.Įdge doesn't end-to-end encrypt your synchronized data. Google's Chrome does not do this, and searching on only asks for sharing of data with Google itself.Įdge also exposes an advertising ID, meant for Bing's Ads, much like what Chrome does for Google. And there's no way to workaround it, you have to answer it (with the rejection being an agreement to “legitimate interest” claims, which are BS). In the EU, when you open Edge for the first time, they ask you to agree to sharing your personal data with the entire advertising industry, via an IAB dialog. Even if that's not their main revenue source, they also hate your ad-blockers. And people forget that Microsoft is also an advertising company. Then there's the fact that Edge is just Microsoft's spyware, being worse in my book than Google's Chrome. ![]() This won't happen immediately because Manifest v2 will probably stick around for longer because of enterprise users, but the writing is on the wall. I keep seeing Edge mentioned as a worthy alternative, and I just don't get it.įirst, all Chromium-based browsers will eventually block uBlock Origin for the sole reason that they can't maintain Manifest v2 on their own, and they all rely on Chrome's Web Store anyway.
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