European alternatives to Microsoft Edge
Microsoft's Chromium-based browser, pushed hard through Windows defaults and prompts. Open-source underneath, but it phones home to a US advertising-and-services giant under the CLOUD Act.
Company information about Microsoft Edge
- Company
- Microsoft Corporation
- Headquarters
- Redmond, United States
- Founded
- 2015
- Data jurisdiction
- United States
- Ownership
- Publicly traded
- GDPR
- No
- Open source
- Partial
- Infrastructure
- Own infrastructure
Why people switch away from Microsoft Edge
European alternatives to Microsoft Edge
Feature-rich browser from former Opera developers, built in Norway. No telemetry, highly customisable, and privacy-respecting.
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People also replace
Google Chrome 
Firefox 
Safari Start somewhere.
Switching everything overnight is not realistic. Start where it matters most: your email, your cloud storage, your business tools. Replace one thing at a time.
The European Alternative already exists.
Pick Europe.
Why avoid United States-owned services?
CLOUD Act
Forces US companies to hand over data stored anywhere in the world upon government request, including data on European servers.
FISA Section 702
Authorises mass surveillance of non-US persons using data held by US tech platforms, without a warrant or notification.
GDPR vs US law conflict
EU courts have repeatedly found that US surveillance law conflicts with European fundamental rights. Schrems I and II both invalidated EU-US data transfer agreements.