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Chrome policies also allow preventing telemetry so how is this any better?

Presumably because if you cared about telemetry and are using windows you'd have disabled windows telemetry already. That means you don't have to do anything extra compared to chrome where you have to search up all the telemetry disabling policies. There's also like this[1] that can't be disabled by group policy.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22236106

You still have to disable those policies for Edge too. Firefox also has network prediction and malware detection that sends your searches to a third-party, as well as telemetry.

>You still have to disable those policies for Edge too.

Do you? The grandparent suggests that if you disable telemetry[1] it would be disabled in edge.

>Firefox also has network prediction and malware detection that sends your searches to a third-party, as well as telemetry.

Not sure why you're bringing up firefox here, when this comment chain was talking about chrome vs edge.

[1] presumably https://getadmx.com/?Category=Windows_10_2016&Policy=Microso...

He/She is right. There are some remaining to be disabled either directly in Edge configuration screen or via GPO too.

But I'm assuming that if you are looking for some sort of privacy with Windows, you have already toggled off those or use ShutUp10 which happens to do this all automatically.

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