Taking a look at the privacy whitepaper [0], there's a long list of data gathering initiatives that seemingly need to be turned off manually (a number of sections explicitly mention opt-out rather than opt-in). I can't check the defaults though, since it doesn't run on Linux. The main problem with opt-out is Microsoft's track record of re-enabling telemetry after it has been turned off by the user, and that's not something you'd want in a web browser.
Just about every update they push to my main workstation usually breaks something for quite a long time. the recent update which I thought I had deferred broke every single thumbnail and the system's ability to remake thumbnails on a machine that stores millions of video files. The heck with using their browser I don't want that to be broken after Avery pushed update too
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Taking a look at the privacy whitepaper [0], there's a long list of data gathering initiatives that seemingly need to be turned off manually (a number of sections explicitly mention opt-out rather than opt-in). I can't check the defaults though, since it doesn't run on Linux. The main problem with opt-out is Microsoft's track record of re-enabling telemetry after it has been turned off by the user, and that's not something you'd want in a web browser.
[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-edge/privacy-whit...
Just about every update they push to my main workstation usually breaks something for quite a long time. the recent update which I thought I had deferred broke every single thumbnail and the system's ability to remake thumbnails on a machine that stores millions of video files. The heck with using their browser I don't want that to be broken after Avery pushed update too