Seems kinda counter-intuitive considering Edge has an ad-blocker built-in and they're trying to compete with Google. They've finally got something that might get them ahead and they're going to make people ignore it.

It would be important that they are seen to be providing an adblocker but I suspect it would block others and not their own.

Most ad blockers nowadays ad block obtrusive ads such as popups and not all ads.

Edit: talking about ad blockers built into the browser

No, what the hell are you talking about? There is no built-in ad blocker in Edge.

What they do have is a tracker blocker, which helps prevent sites serving you personalized ads, but the ads themselves are still shown to you regardless.

Microsoft Edge on Android has a built in ad blocker that has an option to block all ads or exception ads

The mobile versions of Edge on both iOS and Android have Adblock Plus built in.

This is typical microsoft and its the whole edge disaster all over again. First its good then when they user come they make it worse and competitor will take them all.

Adding Ads that are clearly separate from the responses... ok, not great, but ok especially for a free product in a capitalistic world... But if they alter the responses to have a bias towards Microsoft products, that would completely destroy the bots credibility and usefulness IMO.

Ugh.. soon the ads will be integrated into the AI prompt generated outputs without notifying users

Please just let me pay for your service instead of wasting my life on shitty ads

Arstechnica article that has ads, complains that a Microsoft product will have ads.

Microsoft’s business model. Make free, sub-adequate versions of things that already exist and then charge people for them eventually without increasing quality.

Billionaires have more money than we do. They are the only customers that companies make any serious effort to please any more