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Firefox: Found a way to translate webpages locally on the device, so you don't need to send any data
Edge: Made it so you can't CTRL-F without sending data to Microsoft
How does this work for sensitive information like banking sites? I know some healthcare software runs in the browser, surely this is a violation of those rules too.
Cost of business. The occasional two digit million fine opposing billions of revenue.
I think telemetry is disabled / very limited for enterprises.
If you sign in to your bank account through edge in your personal device then you agreed to whatever they say when you installed their os.