HOW TO DISABLE THE SEND YOUR SEARCH HISTORY FEATURE IN MICROSOFT EDGE

Microsoft Edge can silently send search queries, demographics, and other data to Microsoft servers. Moreover, not only search data in Bing, but also search data in Google, DuckDuckGo, 
StartPage and other search engines.  

Typically, Edge warns the user about this literally in plain text. 

Or rather, a separate notice that states that the user now has the opportunity to help Microsoft improve its products and services, and that for this purpose it will collect his (the user’s) search data, but as if anonymously, that is, they “will never will be associated with the data of the user himself or his computer." The option that the user allows the company to collect this data is present in the open part of the Edge settings (in the “Optional diagnostic data” subsection) and is active by default. Simply put, if you use Microsoft Edge, you are already helping, and volunteering at that. 

WHERE TO CHECK AND HOW TO DISABLE THE FUNCTION OF SENDING YOUR SEARCH HISTORY IN MICROSOFT EDGE 

Taking into account the fact that in the mentioned notification there is a button that redirects to the browser settings, but you can only get to the main Settings page, we do the following: open Edge and continue: or copy the address into the search bar 

edge://settings/privacy#searchServiceImprovement 

and press Enter (at this address the subsection we need “Optional diagnostic data” should open automatically); 

 or open “Settings” Edge (3 buttons in the upper right corner of the screen > “Settings”), go to the “Privacy” section. search and services" and simply scroll down the screen to the Optional diagnostic data subsection: Turn off the option Send us optional diagnostic data about your browser usage, websites visited, and crash reports to help us improve Microsoft products ; and restart the browser. 

 WHAT DATA DOES EDGE SEND TO MICROSOFT? 

In response to this question, we can only quote an excerpt from the explanation, which was published on the official Edge Support page: We collect and use data from your searches in Microsoft Edge. We use your search results to make everyone's online experience more convenient, relevant and useful. We collect data from your online searches, including from sites that Microsoft does not own or control. The data collected may include your search query, the search results displayed, and your interaction with those search results, such as what links you click on. We may also collect demographic information. Of course, there is a strong suspicion that this is not all. But Microsoft support, as we see, clearly identified four elements: search queries, searching results, search interaction data (including links you click) and your demographics. And the company needs this information “To improve your experience in Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Bing, Microsoft News and other Microsoft services.”