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1 year agoIt’s distinctly fine nowadays. Old Edge was absolute garbage, modern one is a Microsoft version of Chrome. The problem is that I don’t want to swap one mega Corp for another, I want to have a good product. It’s very rarely going to be the best browser for any user, and if I were going to default to recommending one to non-tech users, I’d still rather just say Firefox.
This isn’t “backfiring” though. People who were already blocking ads are the only ones doing this. If there’s even a small portion of people who gave up and just started watching ads/got premium, that means YouTube won. The only way this could really be considered to have backfired is if people were stopping using YouTube entirely, which isn’t really happening.