MS needs a good browser for businesses. One they can shape for their O365 services, and one that gives corporate control and support. Google already has a history of messing with MS on the web.
Right now, I have IE, FF, Chrome, and Edge on my work machine. Some intranet stuff will only work on one of the above. It’s a real treat, I tell ya.
Sounds very familiar. I usually have 2 or 3 different browsers open just to make sure the sessions are separated as well, or you might just end up with some
very strange refreshes of pages
The browsers that are most consistent across all web based content are Chrome and FF - and not just a little bit. Edge also still has its issues in some places, but that is mostly not on Edge but on lacking support for Edge, which in turn sorta makes sense given the market share. And IE... yeah, if all else fails, that tends to happen after all, and is a great excuse to get a cup of coffee while it loads
If you're really that OK with it, then I'm fine playing along. I only support civil freedoms because that's what I thought people like you wanted. If I'm suddenly in a world where people care less, then fine. I'm sensitive to whatever you go with. But if average (especially secular) folks start pushing censorship themselves, then all bets are off. It's changing the rules and opening Pandora's box. Then I myself will ally with my own likeminded folks (mainly Orthodox and Catholics and other traditionalists who never enjoyed liberal values in the first place), who inevitability will ally with Muslim and Hindu bros.. and society will get censored back into Old World levels again. And don't think that won't happen or that a heavily censored society will ever stay the secular route for long. They're the not ones who are breeding. Eventually traditionalists will grab the levers of power and form it in their image.
I'd prefer you actually care though. Then none of this happens at all. I could live with the results, but not many could.
Those conspiracy pages are in fact part of the problem of today. They add to the mountains of (often conflicting) information that's out there. Its just another web page and its credibility leaves much to be desired. It has the opposite effect of what it wants to achieve and it dives right into the troll-heavy Trump debate.
That tells me enough: AVOID.
What I am missing is for people to take a step back and consider what they're really looking at. Media-wisdom, if you will. Recognizing solid sources and questionable ones. Thát is what is really going to bring progress and make people aware. Some whisteblowing is symptomatic and does very little in the grand scheme of things. It takes Snowden-levels of whisteblowing to even make a tiny dent.
Its the same idea as 'give a man a fish and feed him for a day...' - you need to teach people how to fish. And I hate to say this, but the US has cultivated a population and level of intelligence wrt this subject that is frightening. You say 'I thought that is what people like you wanted'... man, you're already way too late if you start worrying now. The fact that Trump got to the office the way he did, on the back of email scandals and Twitter, is the perfect proof of how rotten the US media and its receivers have become. Consider for a moment that POTUS is using 'fake news' as an argument of defense while being the biggest promotor of fake news himself. This is the guy with nuclear launch codes by the way - trolling the world through Twitter.
And I'm afraid that influence has also gained ground over here, we see it every day and those traditionalists and old powers are already on the rise. Erdogan in Turkey and Putin in Russia, hell even Kim in North Korea has gained strength because of the recent talks, recent bills being passed tightening up abortion laws... and note, it is exactly Trump and his right wing evangelist movement, Tea Party extremist views that drive that. The US has a Christian fundamentalist problem and I'm glad you recognize it. These people thrive on conflict and the ingredients are right there waiting. Bolton is another one of those guys that just love to see the world burn to gain influence. You can look at him for the recent Iran events.
Sorry for the direct delivery but when you're in the middle of this, I think you're not even capable of seeing how deep inside the rabbit hole you already are. The fact you linked that page should be an eye opener to you - not the content of it. This problem is integrated in your society and it infects the world outside of it as well, I doubt its even possible to yank it out again.