---
title: "Microsoft Edge now steals your data from Google Chrome after an update"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/microsoft-edge-now-steals-your-data-from-google-chrome-after-an-update-r7rkjhsra
source_url: https://9to5google.com/2024/01/30/microsoft-edge-chrome-data-update-windows/
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2024-01-31T15:13:35.630Z
updated: 2024-05-09T09:21:59.549Z
tags: ["google-chrome", "microsoft-edge"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 6
comments: 2
language: en
---

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# Microsoft Edge now steals your data from Google Chrome after an update

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 2 min read · 6 upvotes · 2 comments

## Summary

Microsoft Edge is aggressively stealing open tabs from Google Chrome after an update, allowing users to pick up where they left off. Edge copies all active tabs from Chrome without user consent or requesting data sync. There is an option to disable this data import setting, but even with it disabled, Edge still imports Chrome data upon startup.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@mykytanikitenko42** · 3 upvotes

> Typical Microsoft

**@rabbyc** · 0 upvotes

> gasp

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