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Re:Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing by rhaway84773 on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @04:09PM (#35706014)
People pay for Windows, MacOS iOS and Android based devices. Presumably they’re also paying for the software that runs those devices, ie the OS. And does anyone think that a web browser is not a core part of an OS today? Certainly MS doesn’t.

So yeah, MS is being paid for their browser. But a trillion dollar valuation is simply not enough.

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Re:Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing by aembleton on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @06:20PM (#35707511)
> Presumably they’re also paying for the software that runs those devices

Not on Android. AOSP is free, but if you want to ship the play store then you have to also include the other Google apps. It is the Google data harvesting and advertising that pays for Android.

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