Recently, Douglas School of Statistics and Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland J Leith results of a study team noted: in its six browser tested, Edge and Yandex browser privacy worst , Brave, Chrome, Firefox and Safari the breakdown of the top four. "Edge hardware UUID will be sent to Microsoft, this is a powerful and lasting identifier, which can not be easily changed or deleted."
And before that, Google aspects have been accused Edge of insecurity. As a counterattack, Microsoft claimed that the application Google Chrome Web Store will destroy the smooth function of the Edge. Douglas J Leith findings of a team, naturally inevitably caused extensive discussions of users, has the favor of the opposition is also with them.
In response to this incident, Microsoft in terms of the acceptance of ZDnet interview conducted refute the findings. It represents, "Microsoft Edge is indeed sent to the back-end data contains the device identifier, but the aim is to improve a product. On Windows, this identifier allows the user to click the mouse, always remove the Microsoft Server related diagnostic data associated with the device ID stored on the (settings from Windows), not all vendors offer. "
Meanwhile, the spokesman also added that, Microsoft Edge asked for permission to collect diagnostic data for product improvement purposes, and provide at any time after its shutdown feature. This diagnostic data may contain information about the site's user access. However, it is not used to track a user's browsing history, or specifically linked to the user's URL.