<blockquote><em><a href="#458279">In reply to sentinel6671:</a></em></blockquote><p>Great, so now instead of everything being sent to Google, it gets sent to MS. Is that actually better? I read an interesting report on the number of connections all the main browsers make on startup to various external sites. Chrome & Firefox make around 30 calls, Opera a little more (some dubious sites too!). New Edge makes <em>over 130 calls</em> to external sites on STARTUP – most are to various MS data collection services, which I thought was pretty staggering.</p>
<blockquote><em><a href="#458713">In reply to ghostrider:</a></em></blockquote><p>Well they will naturally be collecting data when it is released. I bet the extra volume if calls is from it being in beta and therefor them collecting additional information that they wouldn't want from production users. Just a guess though. If you really want a privacy focused browser, use firefox.</p>
<blockquote><em><a href="#459358">In reply to ggolcher:</a></em></blockquote><p>Edge is using Chromium, but Edge is not Chrome. So it won't be on the same schedule as Chrome.</p>