Google's primary business is telemetry: I'd be shocked if they were worse at it than Microsoft. But I'm willing to accept you might disagree with this point.
Regarding the second point: And I think we agree here, the article is odd. It definitely seems like there's an anti-Edge narrative trying to achieve mindshare.
I should have decoupled my original comment, and only discussed the circulation of the article, as that's more concerning.
Their bread and butter is search ads, my dude. They don't need telemetry for that. They have search keywords. Almost all of their revenue comes from there and the margin there is huge.
What source suggests Google’s AdWords ads distributed across the entire web (all the AdWords sites that aren’t SERPs) don’t leverage telemetry and don’t drive meaningful revenue?
Regarding the second point: And I think we agree here, the article is odd. It definitely seems like there's an anti-Edge narrative trying to achieve mindshare.
I should have decoupled my original comment, and only discussed the circulation of the article, as that's more concerning.