Edge Is Pretending to Be Chrome

I don't think there was any official announcement, but I'm pretty sure Microsoft is secretly trying to trick you into using Edge. Well, it has always been trying to trick us, but this time it's even more aggressive. You can no longer tell Edge from Chrome. Just go ahead and try. Just last week, I wrote about Edge trying to get users to launch it automatically at boot time. Shortly after, I noticed that Chrome was asking for the exact same thing. Today, I clicked on the weather app on my Windows machine, and of course it opened Edge and asked me to set it as the default. I dismissed the popup and noticed that the website was pushed down from the top by another browser message, this one asking to transfer my data from my other browser to Edge. Bring your favorites, passwords, history, cookies and more from other browsers each time you browser in Microsoft Edge. I visited a few other pages and saw a bunch of ads, which reminded me to switch back to Chrome. I did, but I noticed something…