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Unfortunately the truth. The money isn't in creating the best browser they can, it's in what they can siphon from their users. And how they can pry upon impulsive and impoverished shoppers: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/11/micro...


Meanwhile Apple has no problem also prying about impulsive and impoverished shoppers by offering both a credit card they forced Goldman to issue based on lower standards (which they have lost another $1 billion on this year) AND now offering BNPL too.

It's almost like big corporations love to "exploit markets" wrapped in layers of feel good marketing.


>a credit card they forced Goldman to issue

Poor old Goldman Sachs, the victim yet again.


I'll get back to you when the Apple credit card appears in Safari.




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