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I think there's more to it than that. Good for some and bad for others. A few rough off the top of my head:

Good:

* Better privacy from the intrusive ad motivated JS shit hole the internet has become.

* Faster internet for those on slow connections

* Protection from ISP MITM. Many countries now have mandatory data collection laws that ISPs have to follow.

* Better than a lot of shady 3rd party commercial VPN providers.

* Is opt-in (for now)

* Potential to reduce Google's dominance

Bad:

* Obvious MITM choke point, as you mentioned

* Potential control / monitoring by two large corporations

* Business goals usually override users.




>* Is opt-in (for now)

Are you sure?

>a VPN baked into Edge appears to be turned on by default, but only for certain use cases.




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