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Does it nag you constantly and do everything it can to steal data from you? I think lots of Microsoft products are now technically very good, but I don't like using them because they can't stop annoying me about stuff, and every time I turn my back are committing industrial espionage.

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I haven't seen any nags at all. Chrome is notoriously the most anti-privacy browser in the top-flight; Edge generally has better privacy controls than Chrome. But, if you're comparing it to Brave or some others, you'll be disappointed if that is your main concern.

Edge does occasionally nag you about "using the recommended defaults" (i.e. Bing) after updating.

Edge is continually adding new invasive features. I've had the same policies set for Chrome for some time to remove any telemetry but Edge has a habit of turning things back on that were disabled and trying to push more junk. Chrome has not does this to me and I really don't think your point is accurate, at least not based on my experience and if you compare the two you'll definitely find Edge opting in to much more by default.

"Habit" is such euphemism.

> Does it nag you constantly and do everything it can to steal data from you?

I remember having to spend a little while de-shittifying it, they push the Shopping/Rewards stuff pretty hard and clutter up the UI. You can't get rid of Bing on the new tab page without extensions / other hoops.

> I remember having to spend a little while de-shittifying it, they push the Shopping/Rewards stuff pretty hard and clutter up the UI. You can't get rid of Bing on the new tab page without extensions / other hoops.

so... yes. yes it does.

Knowing Microsoft they will keep re-shitting it all back with random Windows Updates and then some. 100%. They don't give a damn if people don't like what they are forcing their throats, they just keep at it until it's there.

I get nagged more by google to use chrome whnvever you go to their sites in another browser.

This is what led me to slowly abandon my use of Google.

1/2 of the time I search google while not logged in, it asks me about logging in or creating an account.

About the same rate I get bothered logging into gmail using a non-chrome browser and they need to tell me I should experience Gmail with chrome.

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