Which is another reason to try a browser not owned by an advertising business.
From the perspective of Google, your browser or your phone are just ad spaces.
From the perspective of Google, your browser or your phone are just ad spaces.
Apple sells ads, so that rules out Safari.
Microsoft sells ads, so no Edge or Internet Explorer.
Mozilla sells ads, so no Firefox.
Brave sells ads, so no Brave.
What’s left? Lynx?
Think of it this way: what percentage of the revenue of each of these businesses comes from advertising? Where can you put your (understandably) limited trust given the limited list of options?
There's a huge difference between the incentives of Alphabet and, _say_, Mozilla from the revenue source pov.
^1 ca $400M paid to Mozilla for search partnerships by Google, per annum
^2 probably ca 10-15B paid to Apple, pa
How would you answer your own question?
> Microsoft sells ads
> Mozilla sells ads
what?