Thankful for not pushing Edge if you decide you want this feature. This feature is something the community has been independently creating for years.

Personally I don't think people should actually allow this type of feature. It's too much of a risk. But my point stands on its own, that at least they aren't creating an even more perverse incentive to use Edge, which they absolutely could have done, and seems the MO of the Microsoft today who would sacrifice all else to be able to say there's 1 or 2 more Edge or Bing users.

It’s a local database that isn’t even synced. It’s as much “surveillance” as .bash_history is.

What it actually is however is hastily slapped together, enabled by default, and secured about as much as any other random system file, so MS doesn’t get a pass here, but they’re not twirling their mustaches like some would believe.