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When I read things like this, I struggle to understand the economic logic behind it.
How much money does Microsoft really expect to get from more people using Edge instead of Chrome? I mean, both of them are provided free of charge anyway. Does the control over the default search engine or the advertising technology or something like that really bring them more money than these "rewards" cost?
Because they can rob more data from you, make shareholders more happy and push in your throat more ads
It all seems even more ridiculous when you realize all of these browsers are just flavors of chrome and MS is pretending it doesn't gather enough data from windows 11 telemetry.
It's about profiling the user, logging his activities and searches, certainly bring more money than these "rewards".
They want your tracking data for AI, so bad. Also they added payments into the browser itself and they really really want you to use that.
Can someone take the points and switch back 😄