Even non-techies know how and want to install a different browser, how many decades more will they try this pressure fueling of their shitty browser?

In fear of playing devils advocate a little bit:

Edge is not a shitty browser. Ad-infested, controlling, overwhelming, disrespectful, annoying yes. But not shitty.

It’s chromium-based so it’s quite fast and secure (unlike Internet Explorer that everyone loved back in the day). I wouldn’t use Edge, but it’s a decent default if you’re okay accepting Windows antics.

It’s an opinion, don’t kill me. 😶‍🌫️

I’d argue that those behaviours are what make the browser shitty.

That’s also a fair point, in hindsight. I associate shitty to being insecure, slow, and borderline unusable. I have a middle of the road view on the privacy aspect because Chrome exists, it doesn’t care about your privacy but I think you’ll be hard pressed to call it shitty.

That said, I wouldn’t hold my breath and I wouldn’t be surprised if in a few months time Chrome comes with Gemini integrated by default. All your private data, straight to Google’s servers.