Microsoft Edge has become a place where Microsoft can try out things at a much faster pace than Windows update. But that means it's getting all of these features by default, leaking yorur data to Microsoft and with deceptive questions to make you use Bing as the default search engine. Every time I get the prompt I need to do a double take because they use their 'blue button' thing as a way to guide you to a certain c…
the purpose is to make a record of what you are doing on the Internet.. detailed records. Its a feature for management, tax officials and to some extent ordinary law enforcement. Secondly, the records in aggregate show trends and activity, to sell ads, and might have other commercial value, or value to MSFT+partners with new product areas.
This kind of record keeping was mocked for thirty years in the West when it was done in other places, now its here on the "standard" PC. PC sales have slowed in the last dozen years. This is the kind of invasive, unbridled abuse you get now on a "personal computer"