Microsoft tried its best to rescue Internet Explorer/Edge from being the punchline of nerdy jokes, but its efforts essentially failed.
Meanwhile, Opera had shuttered the development of its own rendering engine and redesigned its browser with less functionality, alienating many of its biggest fans.
Add to that Microsofts move to the Chromium engine, which is finally giving Microsoft a seat at the browser table again, plus the success of upstarts like Brave and Vivaldi, and youve got the right mix of competitive pressure and customer interest for innovation to come back into what was a stagnant field only a few years ago.
This move centers around differential privacy and a privacy budget that would allow advertisers to get enough information about you to group you into a larger cohort without providing so much information that you would love your anonymity.
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