>Then there's the fact that Edge is just Microsoft's spyware, being worse in my book than Google's Chrome.
Out of curiosity, is there any objective proof that Microsoft-Edge is worse for privacy than Google-Chrome, or is it just a subjective "Google=Good Microsoft=Bad" feeling?
But that wasn't an objective analysis, that's just your highly opinionated opinion with which I found some flaws in, as in you're wrong about several statements.
>Google's Chrome does not do this, and searching on google.com only asks for sharing of data with Google itself.
You mean sharing your data with Google THE ad-company which then shares your data to advertisers? How is that any more private?
>And in true Microsoft spirit, it also has telemetry, which you can't turn off.
Aside from the big blue Bing button in the user-chrome (and the MS sidebar), and the fact that switching your search engine in Edge involves jumping through a surprising amount of hoops, as opposed to Chrom[ium/e]. I haven't counted the number of steps, but it's definitely more than Chromium-based browsers -- they seem to have intentionally buried it in Settings (it's right at the bottom of one of the pages), and you get a ton of "Bing is great!" messaging when you do finally figure out how to switch it.
P.S. That demo you linked shows an outdated version of Edge.
In the past, one would right click on omnibar/searchbar/addressbar and modify search engines from there... Now it really takes a search within settings to find it - and it takes prior knowledge that these things are possible :)
Out of curiosity, is there any objective proof that Microsoft-Edge is worse for privacy than Google-Chrome, or is it just a subjective "Google=Good Microsoft=Bad" feeling?