>Google's Chrome does not do this, and searching on google.com only asks for sharing of data with Google itself.
You mean sharing your data with Google THE ad-company which then shares your data to advertisers? How is that any more private?
>And in true Microsoft spirit, it also has telemetry, which you can't turn off.
Same as Chrome on this front.
>And Edge is hard-coded to use Bing.
No it's not, you can change it. https://www.google.com/homepage/search/sp-edge-p.html
Nothing wrong with having a strong opininated opinion on a matter, but you can't just sell it as objective facts.
Aside from the big blue Bing button in the user-chrome (and the MS sidebar), and the fact that switching your search engine in Edge involves jumping through a surprising amount of hoops, as opposed to Chrom[ium/e]. I haven't counted the number of steps, but it's definitely more than Chromium-based browsers -- they seem to have intentionally buried it in Settings (it's right at the bottom of one of the pages), and you get a ton of "Bing is great!" messaging when you do finally figure out how to switch it.
P.S. That demo you linked shows an outdated version of Edge.
Settings -> Privacy, search and services -> Address bar and search
3 steps are "jumping through a surprising amount of hoops" for you?
TLDR: I use Edge as my primary browser.
Out of curiosity, is there any objective proof that Microsoft-Edge is worse for privacy than Google-Chrome, or is it just a subjective "Google=Good Microsoft=Bad" feeling?