Hello GraniteStateColin
Welcome to the Microsoft Community.
Thank you for your feedback, I have read your description of the problem in detail and I understand the issue you are currently experiencing.
You mentioned that YouTube videos are oversaturated with Windows in HDR mode. I would suggest that you could first try enabling hardware decoding in Edge as detailed below.
- Type edge://flags/ in the search bar at the top of Edge.
- In the interface that opens, type Hardware-accelerated video decode in the search field, and then set this feature to enabled.
- Test if your problem will just show up
If, you have tried the above and the problem still persists, then the problem is most likely related to your NVIDIA graphics card and I would suggest that you can get in touch with NVIDIA's technical support staff, which will help you to get more information. You can click on the link below to submit your question.
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/support/
We hope that your problem can be solved properly, thank you for your understanding.
Best regards
Brian - Microsoft Community Support Specialist
Brian, that flag is enabled by default (see screenshots below, where those are original values, not ones I've manually changed). See other note in this thread from Pet0rUK that this was a reported bug, fixed in Chrome, but that MS has apparently not incorporated this update for some reason.
It looks like you're with MS. I have reported this in the Feedback Hub and through Edge Feedback, but those generally don't seem to make any difference. How do we register this with MS for bugfix?
And to be clear, here's the same URL in Chrome (on the left) and Edge (on the right). Clearly, Edge has some defect that is not in Chrome. Note that the pasted image is not identical to how these appear to me, but you can still there is a strong difference between the two browsers, even though they are supposedly running the same code (could this even by an intentional act by Google to ensure YouTube doesn't look right on Edge, at least not for anyone with HDR monitors?):