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> As long as Chrome is not the default in the overwhelming amount of the operating systems, this might even stay like this, which is why I'm extremely unhappy that Android ships with Chrome these days and not with a thin gui on top of the system webview, like it used to.

That is also why I was rather sad when Microsoft announced that they won't develop their own browser engines any more. I disliked IE as much as anybody else, but what I did like was the competition. With Edge switching to Blink, essentially becoming yet another partially-degooged Chrome, part of that competition is gone.



> With Edge switching to Blink, essentially becoming yet another partially-degooged Chrome

Now it sends half of your data to Google and the other half to Microsoft. That's an improvement, they decentralized spyware.


Its 75% each way. And they will for many years work to reduce spying by lowering this percentage, to 50% in the asymptotic case.




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