Leith measured the connections made by six browsers to back-end services during web browsing sessions. Microsoft Edge is one of the least private web browsers - even more so than other popular browsers like Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox - according to academic researchers.Īccording to the analysis, from Douglas Leith with the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College in Ireland, Edge sends privacy-invasive telemetry to Microsoft’s back-end servers - including “persistent” device identifiers and URLs typed into browsing pages.
