Microsoft Edge may be sending search information to Microsoft

What the fuck Microsoft ... If anyone is listening, you're ruining an otherwise perfectly good browser. Please fire whoever is running this product into the ground.

It's so painful seeing Microsoft fallback on shit tactics and anti-privacy, user-hostile features like this to gain market share when in reality it will probably have the opposite effect.

You have a great base product, fucking build on it. Please, pretty please, give us a christmas gift and stop being this shit at running your product ...

I mean, the lure to do this must be so strong and enticing. the big data people are like "we need more data" (they will always say this no matter how much data they have) and the "whoa privacy" people within organizations are dismissed as "too depressing" and "blocking innovation" (as the big data people see it).

they all forget who they're doing this for. who is the group of people who see these things? customers. but customer happiness doesn't get the big data people to shut the hell up and stop nagging management, and customer happiness doesn't improve anyone's yearly review, and ultimately bad decisions are made because the incentives to make the right decisions are only there when you lay in bed at night and stare at the ceiling and think about what you're doing.

so customers get bad stuff.

Ofcourse it does. And ofcourse even with all settings 'off' to gain privacy, data is still being sent. It's Microsoft. They earn money with your data just as Google does. We know they do. And we don't know the full source code.

Useless clickbaity article IMO.

I'm not seeing this setting in Edge on Mac OS.

This is why I use the Brave browser. I don’t trust Microsoft or Google.

May be? I had assumed that was a certainty.

I just assumed it does. I’d be surprised if it wasn’t.