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> I would highlight that both Microsoft and Apple (to a lesser extent, mind you) also operate their own ad platforms.

Do you mean that before when you said "every single browser developer that doesn't own an Ads and Analytics suite" you meant to exclude nearly all the browser vendors? Google, sure, but also Apple, and Microsoft. And then Opera, UC Browser, Brave, DDG, ... I think maybe everyone but Mozilla and Vivaldi has an ads product?




Perhaps it would be best to say companies support privacy in web browsers inversely correlated with their dependence on ad revenue. So Google is worse than Microsoft, which is worse than Apple, etc. I think it'd be fair to assume if you gave all three a choice to keep their ad products or their browser, Google would keep ads, and both Microsoft and Apple would keep their browsers, because of their relative value to their core business.




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