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It would harm accessibility for one thing.

• orev 3y ago
  Encrypting data on the disk has nothing to do with displaying it in the browser where accessibility tools would be used.
  • LeonB 3y ago
    Many accessibility tools on windows use the IAccessible com interface to get text from applications (including google chrome and chromium and many other browsers and applications.) If google chrome doesn’t prevent this from occurring, Windows/Edge can easily collect this info via the IAccessible interface. If google chrome does prevent this from occurring it will also prevent accessibility tools from doing the same.
    • orev 3y ago
      In something like this, Edge is definitely not scraping the rendered content from the front end interface, it’s accessing the underlying Chrome files that store session history, tabs, urls, etc. and then opening the same sites in its own tabs. I will admit that I’m not an expert on how accessibility feature work, but having a strong understanding of computers I highly doubt its using its own separate rendering engine to access urls directly.