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Well that’s mighty selfish of you isn’t it, won’t you think of the Microsoft shareholder who want to make more money from harvesting your data and Netflix for wanting to serve you ads to increase profits.
Microsoft doesn’t care if you use the app or the browser
You’re still on their OS
I'm certainly no desktop developer, but I would imagine a native application gives you access to more intrusive data than a browser, especially considering modern browser protections. Just a theory though
You mean you're not Edging?
They could keylog everything or screenshot every x seconds and send it to them if they wanted
Log all network requests
The app is most likely electron which is just Chromium
You'd never know it the way they try to make every Microsoft branded app the default