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Edge is based on Chromium

The critical issue is that Firefox, Safari, and Edge all implement tracking prevention. When Microsoft switched Edge to Chromium, they implemented tracking prevention on top of Chrome, that Google refuses to implement because they're an ad company.

Note that removing tracking scripts and some ads significantly improves browsing speed and web performance as well. So even if privacy isn't your top concern, it's just... faster.

This makes Edge simply... a better version of Chrome than Chrome.

Is tracking prevention just builtin adblock?

There's overlap, but the focus is different. An ad blocker might not care about Google Analytics, which doesn't show ads. Meanwhile tracking prevention might not care about a banner ad that doesn't do any sort of tracking when it runs.

Tracking prevention will block some ads but it's focus is potentially privacy-violating script.

But as the article points out, it's faster.

IMO the case for Edge over Chrome isn't that convincing, but the Safari one is. If it had container tabs like Firefox (which has become a must for me) I'd switch in a heartbeat.

Safari doesn't have container tabs, but the Intelligent Tracking Prevention is supposed to achieve some of the same goals (but much more opaquely unless you're familiar with it's mechanisms)

You could try to read up on wether it satisfies your requirements: https://webkit.org/blog/category/privacy/

Not certainly, but most likely ITP meets your use case better than containers, as it's automatic.

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