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Microsoft stole my Chrome tabs, and it wants yours, too
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this post was submitted on 29 Jan 2024
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Not quite. Edge and Chrome are both Chromium-based browsers. There shouldn't be any of the Googled parts of Chrome in Edge, just as there aren't any Googled parts of Chrome in stock Chromium.
Of course, you are now giving your data to Microsoft instead of Google, which isn't really a win or a lose. If you're not paying for the software, you're either using FOSS, or the software is paid for by selling access to you and your computer.
There are at the very least googled parts of chromium in it though : https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium
Unless google have significantly changed the way they package and build chromium recently there are still google web service dependencies and i believe binary blobs (though they may have changed the closed source blob policy iirc)
Indeed