Microsoft reveals all the Google things it removed in its Chromium Edge browser

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This is good, sort of.

As I understand it, the bulk of the work on Chromium is currently being done by google developers and not so strangely, Chromium has a bunch of google services hardwired in to it. Take a look at the list of services Microsoft says that they have replaced or turned of in the linked article.

Having developers that don't have share that google-centric world view working on chromium may give us a more neutral browser.

If we end up with a hard fork, having a major player like Microsoft in the mix may dilute google's total dominance of the browser by giving us a compatible browser that does not feed your data into google.

Either way, time to bring out the pop corn.

But, is it vulnerable to the MarioNet attack reported at the end of February as a problem for all the big browsers except for IE 11? https://cybersguards.com/browser-marionet-attack-hackers-vul...

Note that it's not that Microsoft's implementation in IE 11 was resistant to the attack it's that IE 11 didn't implement the feature at all.

Also note the paper is largely overblown and possibly just plain wrong https://love2dev.com/pwa/marionet-attack/

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