Plus sketchy companies like Zerodium major customers are nation-state actors who are primarily interested in data exfiltration and the application data stores themselves.
This is why its so valuable though.
Whereas a desktop often has users on it who enter banking details or corporate login credentials. Much juicier targets.
It's a thin wrapper around Blink just like Chrome/Chromium. What is there to "hate"?
The endless fluff and clutter to clean up (Search bar appearing on desktop, sidebar foistware). The relentless marketing and push of adjacent services (Bing AI).
The passive-aggressive IE compatibility mode (unremovable nag banner to stop using IECM, your Legacy App URLs expire after 30 days for no good reason).
'turn it off'
I did. But its not intuitive, its some settings button that is semi-transparent. I literally had to google/bing it.
The inital setup was awful.
Then it opening all my links in edge was not okay. I'm signed in on firefox, I don't want things opening in edge.
I can't remember, I gave up after the whole BingGPT thing was a let down.
>Zerodium reviews, tests, validates, and documents all acquired vulnerability research then provides it to institutional clients as part of the
Zerodium only cares about shit their own customers want to target. They aren't trying to fund the entire world of software security.
Their customers in particular are select governments wanting exploits for their own use. You can sure as shit bet they already have specific targets in mind and what they use.
EDIT: For example, the forum software noted on Zerodium's list are popular for "blackhat" and "darkweb" forums from everything from card dump selling to malware. Many governments would love to get themselves a database dump with some user IPs. Conversely, this is why Discourse which is a major BB these days is missing as it's not popular in those circles.
1. The Windows (end-)user base is much larger than Linux (not counting Android), so a Windows exploit enables more potential victims.
2. Windows has been the de-facto corporate OS for a long time, so a Windows exploit offers more high-value targets.
https://zerodium.com/program.html
Getting a Windows exploit is higher value than any linux exploit. Given how many servers use Linux, it makes me wonder if Linux 0 click are easier than windows.
There are a bunch of counters like 'there are too many distros', or 'a personal computer of a VIP is higher value than some corporations'. But I'm not sure its fair to include your point number 1.
I like to give people credit where its due, I imagine it took lots of work to make windows as secure as it is. (Giving Android OS the most credit for their 2.5M payout)