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Edge started itself on boot after a recent Windows update. It even had a little pop-up about how “helpful” it was to have it start right when my computer turns on so I can “get to browsing” faster. It’s never been set as my default. Uhg.

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Make sure you go into the settings and turn everything off. It’ll run in the background and do God knows what even though you’ve turned off startup.

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And then on next update go turn it off again, since they’ll enable everything again. Rinse and repeat for eternity. Or switch to Linux and be done with their shenanigans.

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If you sped through edge’s first launch wizard recently it’s now scraping your browsing data from other browsers.

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Yeah I think they learned that from wavebrowser

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https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil

Run this after every update, specifically the tweak that uninstalls Edge. Makes things a lot easier. It also gives you the option to delay feature updates by two years and only install security updates on time.

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