We will work diligently today to find a way to say something in our app store descriptions in terms of a better disclosure -- will likely have something up by the end of the day.
In terms of our app and multi-pronged protection, it isn't mumbo jumbo. Our app is way more than just a browser (and increasingly so). For example, the app tracking protection mentioned for Android blocks trackers in all your other apps. The email tracking protection blocks trackers in your email (that you read in your regular email client/app).
I understand the concern here that we are working to address in a variety of ways, but to be clear no app will provide 100% protection for a variety of reasons, and the scripts in question here do currently have significant protection on them in our browser. From the comment "That is, the privacy thing most people talk about on the web (blocking 3rd party cookies) applies here to MSFT. We also have a lot of other web protections that also apply to MSFT-owned properties as well, e.g., GPC, first-party cookie expiration, fingerprinting protection, referrer header trimming, cookie consent handling, fire button data clearing, etc."
In terms of our app and multi-pronged protection, it isn't mumbo jumbo. Our app is way more than just a browser (and increasingly so). For example, the app tracking protection mentioned for Android blocks trackers in all your other apps. The email tracking protection blocks trackers in your email (that you read in your regular email client/app).
I understand the concern here that we are working to address in a variety of ways, but to be clear no app will provide 100% protection for a variety of reasons, and the scripts in question here do currently have significant protection on them in our browser. From the comment "That is, the privacy thing most people talk about on the web (blocking 3rd party cookies) applies here to MSFT. We also have a lot of other web protections that also apply to MSFT-owned properties as well, e.g., GPC, first-party cookie expiration, fingerprinting protection, referrer header trimming, cookie consent handling, fire button data clearing, etc."