Actually Microsoft is being real smart here because the swell over time will become Chrome is Microsoft Edge so why do you need to install Chrome? This is the downfall for Chrome IMO.
My source on Mozilla financials is the "Mozilla Foundation and Subsidiary: 2016 & 2017 Independent Auditors' Report and Consolidated Financial Statements" - https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2017/mozilla-fdn-201...
I very much like privacy, but better privacy is only a market winner when coupled with an advertising budget. Firefox has proven that.
Problem is, at this point it would be hard to convince people to try Edge again.
The second issue is that Microsoft (and it's not just them, here) is terrible about advertising their new features. It's hard to get users to go through walk-throughs and tutorials when they first set up a device, because most users just want to jump to actually using the devices, but I'm a big fan of the 12-15 tab slideshows that Mac devices show right when you first update. It's not thoroughly intrusive (it's pretty similar to Microsoft's "Tips" app), but it's got animations and really shows how useful the features could be.
Microsoft has to get better at showing off new features, and they REALLY need to get better at making extensions available to users. The Microsoft Store just doesn't feel like the best place for Edge Extensions as it is right now.
https://www.stonetemple.com/mobile-vs-desktop-usage-study/
If people cared about privacy, they wouldn’t be using Facebook of anything Google made.
Except both of those companies still track your activity across the web, with or without an account... In order to care about privacy, a user has to do a hell of a lot more than just not use any of these invasive services.
iOS has a built in content blocking framework that other developers can plug into
The content blockers submit rules to iOS that Safari uses - the ad blocker doesn’t have access to your browsing history.
In the US, iOS has more market share - it surprised me too. iOS market share is relatively high in more affluent countries.
http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/united-stat...
Is that feature and others like Chrome syncing your bookmarks available to non-official Chrome browsers?
In fact, Google is doing everything they can to help Microsoft do this. Consider the fact that logging into Gmail from Chrome logs you into Chrome. (Yes, there is an option to disable this but that's a fake non-functioning option.) If Microsoft offers better privacy--and they will--CEdge will be the preferred browser in no time!