The main idea behind it is to improve the creation of tab groups for the user. The process is automated when the feature is used, which means that you do not have to create tab groups manually anymore and put tabs into them.
Edge sends information about all open websites to a Microsoft server when the option is selected. The AI processes the request then on the server and returns its suggestions after a moment.
While the automatic tab group creation features of Edge and Chrome look useful, privacy conscious users may want to skip those and create tab groups manually instead.
Having your entire list of open websites submitted to a company server without really knowing what is done with it and how it is stored outweighs the convenience of the feature.
Android doesn’t really have telemetry or privacy issues unless you use stock android from google.
What’s that, like 90+% of Android users?
Probably more like 99.99% if we are being honest. However this is a privacy community so in just this community its likely much lower.
Shifts nervously
For real though, I’ve been meaning to switch to a de-Googled variant but just haven’t found the energy. Baby steps.