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If you are running the latest version of Microsoft Edge on a Windows computer, you may not realise it, but it is copying everything you do in Chrome every time you open it. Here’s how it works.
Chrome is the most popular web browser by a very wide margin, so even though Microsoft Edge comes with Windows, a lot of people download and install Chrome and make it their main browser. There are a lot of people with both Chrome and Edge on their Windows computer and they may not realize that Edge is spying on everything they do in Google’s browser...
Open Edge, click the three dots in the top right corner to show the menu, click Settings and then select Profiles in the sidebar. Alternatively, enter edge://settings/profiles into the URL box. Look down the list of items and select Import browser data.
On the next screen, which is only available in Windows and not a Mac, there is an item called Import browsing data at each browser launch. Click the Edit preferences button on the right.
Every time Edge is started, it reads Chrome’s autofill settings, browsing history, cookies, extensions, bookmarks, open tabs, payment info and saved passwords! Wow!…
* My copy of Edge Version 117.0.2045.60 doesn’t have “Import browsing data at each browser launch”…or any reference to Chrome.