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Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by faitswulff on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @01:46PM (#22057091)
Cynical thought: in no way am I claiming this was the only reason for Microsoft choosing Blink, but it’s probably easier to find and replace Google analytics APIs with Microsoft endpoints than it is to add them into a code base after the fact.
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Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by iudqnolq on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @01:51PM (#22057154)
Can you link to a Google Analytics API call in Chromium? It's OSS.

Edit: Chromium connects to Google servers to update extensions and for captive portal detection. Firefox does pretty much the same.

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Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by wbkang on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @03:59PM (#22058496)
Search for UMA metrics.
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Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by iudqnolq on Thursday January 16, 2020 @02:26PM (#22067918)
Firefox does something similar, but calls it Firefox Health Reports. See https://blog.mozilla.org/metrics/fhr-faq/

(note that I think there's nothing wrong with this at all, just pointing out that this isn't chromium-specific)

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Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by rdsubhas on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @02:03PM (#22057290)
Chromium is not the same as Google Chrome. Chromium is open source and vendor neutral. Google Chrome adds the Google stuff on top of it.

Both chromium and Firefox can be customized and vendor branded (see the countless privacy oriented browsers built on top of Firefox).

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Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by ndarwincorn on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @03:06PM (#22057915)
> Chromium is...vendor neutral.

That's pretty misleading. When you want to sync state across Chromium installs, you use a Google account, and that's really just scratching the surface.

Chromium comes with quite a bit of Google baked-in.

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Re:The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview by endothrowho333 on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @07:11PM (#22060339)
Chromium still has Google endpoints.

Iridium was developed specifically to degoogle all attempts at phoning home.

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