They're trying to pull an Apple, that you can use whatever browser you want, but they want you using their rendering engine underneath, as apple with webkit, Mi

They're trying to pull an Apple, that you can use whatever browser you want, but they want you using their rendering engine underneath, as apple with webkit, Microsoft with edge, which is just a clone of chrome with all the google spyware replaced with Microsoft's. The problem is you're stuck with all their suckage in doing so, such as poor bastards using IOS that get no basic privacy protection in the browser with extensions like ublock origin or noscript, and Microsoft simply trying to keep themselves relevant to continue slurping your data first hand. With the web by and large having moved to using https/tls for everything, it's no longer easy to see what people are doing passively sniffing traffic, even the os, so now they build browsers to go back to watching everything you do via the rendering engine client. Even this wasn't good enough for Apple that they implemented their default-on "privacy proxy" to provide justification for running almost everything out of your phone through them network-wise too. Plus you're held to using only Apple's webkit that they release security updates constantly for, since beside imessage is the most popular infection vector to get malware on iphones. Google is trying this now too with their "privacy vpn" (ha), I'm sure monkey see monkey do Microsoft will soon too. This is why the EU is trying to force Apple to allow 3rd party rendering engines, to open up the ecosystem. Someone should really apply the same to Microsoft for doing this too. They might get sued if they just deleted chrome and told you to use Edge instead, but this passive aggressive and overreaching coercion is truly sinister they play at.