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Interestingly, one of the most important battles in the browser (and apps in general) market now is the privacy aspect. There are two vendor groups here: one explicitly mentions it (Apple, Mozilla), and the other remains silent, speaking only about non-provacy features (Google, Microsoft).

There is an explicit section for privacy on the page as I can see, there is even a dedicated page to it: https://microsoftedgewelcome.microsoft.com/en-us/privacy

Also they wrote a privacy whitepaper for Edge as well: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/privacy-whit...

This is absolutely not the same. Mozilla is actively fighting with user tracking agains their will. Apple is also making some steps in the same direction and speaking about it loudly. In the meantime, Google and MS are doing whatever they can get away with.

This landing page explicitly mentions respecting privacy.

Marketing language is not always a reliable source of information

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