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With Edge using Chromium, is data still going to Google like this blog posts says?

Chromium is the open source version minus the proprietary services and codecs[0].

What am I missing?

[0] https://www.howtogeek.com/202825/what’s-the-difference-betwe...

Not exactly a direct answer, because it is unclear to what degree MS will fork/adapt Chromium for their own, but there is a project called Ungoogled-Chromium which I recommend that does exactly the name implies - evidently there is a need for this because there are a number of services and data exchanges with Google servers in stock Chromium.

You aren't missing anything. The author is (deliberately?) confusing Google Chrome, the Chromium project, and the Blink rendering engine.

My understanding is that Microsoft is planning on adopting some components of Chromium (certainly including Blink, unclear how much else) for future versions of Edge.

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