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Article below may be of interest.
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But the most intrusive phoning-home features were found in the new version of Microsoft Edge and the official Yandex Browser.
Prof. Leith says that in their "out of the box" states, Brave is by far the most private browser, sending back the fewest amount of information.
"We did not find any use of identifiers allowing tracking of IP address overtime, and no sharing of the details of web pages visited with backend servers," he said.
Brave deemed most private browser in terms of 'phoning home' | ZDNet
FYI. The article that you linked probably refers to Legacy Edge not Chromium Edge given the date of the article.