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I don't think we should guess.

In 2024, Microsoft generated 12.58 billion dollars in revenue from advertising, which is nothing to scoff at.

And we also have to look at future opportunities — the share of the advertising market may be small, but they represent THE alternative to Google's ads, including on all alternative search engines.

If they aren't concerned about ads or ad-blockers, then why are they so aggressive about pushing Edge on Windows users? And in the EU, when people first open up the Edge browser, why do they inform people that Edge will share their data with the entire advertising industry?



Thanks for those insights. So they might have good reasons to support Google‘s position.




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