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One of the problems with Edge is that it sends 350+ requests "home" to Microsoft on startup (in good-old fashioned way Windows does). A big no-no from a privacy standpoint.

Surely this would show up in dns? The only thing my DNS shows me from edge usage is smartscreen.

My bad for not linking to the source of information:

https://brave.com/popular-browsers-first-run/

>uBlock Origin does not even work as well in Chrome as it does in FF

AFAIK Firefox is the only mobile browser that supports uBlock Origin.

Kiwi Browser on Android has support for desktop Chrome extensions, and it's open-source.

Given Edge is based on Chromium, I don't see how it's Chrome's biggest threat, there's all sorts of tricks Google can pull to cripple Chromium so Edge is also punished.

Look at what they've done with Android and the massive "Google Play Services" bolt on. If you try and take away any of its permissions you get a warning that "this may cause basic functionality to stop working"