This actually explains something for me! Every few weeks my father-in-law has an issue where a site he uses—which I presume has some bug where local state gets corrupted—just fails to load properly. It works on Chrome for Android on the same wi-fi connection, and works again on his desktop once cookies/local storage etc are cleared.

What perplexed me the most recent time, is that the site also wouldn't load in Edge. While the article doesn't explicitly mention it, the screenshot does imply it's capable of pulling cookies and other data over too.

One more annoyance to be aware of I guess.

I know someone who has constant issues with their Window PC breaking Chrome and the only known short term fix to get Chrome working again was to rename the app to something like Chrome1. When that no longer works, the only option was to reinstall Chrome.

Don't know how wide spread the issue is but if that's happening, it's not surprising Edge would become the default, especially with reports of other dark patterns people are experiencing.

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39179929