Are Google, Amazon and others getting too big?

Re:Are Google, Amazon and others getting too big? by izacus on Saturday June 10, 2017 @12:30PM (#14527914)

The problem with that is that those companies can use the ad revenue to dump prices in other field and essentially drive any possible competition out of the market. This can cause a dangerous snowball where a few huge corporations control several markets and competing is impossible because they don't need to earn profit (or earn anything at all) on those secondary markets.

Add vendor lockin and you just created a corporate monopoly which is terrible for consumers.

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Re:Are Google, Amazon and others getting too big? by scarface74 on Saturday June 10, 2017 @01:08PM (#14528113)

And what will happen to these companies as more people start blocking ads? Apple introduced an ad blocking framework into iOS a year or two ago and this year they are going even further with blocking tracking cookies and letting users default to reading view.

So sure the "unwashed masses" will see ads but ad buyers are going to start losing their most affluent audience - the people who are willing to pay not to see ads whether it be buying an iPhone or subscribing to ad free services.

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Re:Are Google, Amazon and others getting too big? by ocdtrekkie on Saturday June 10, 2017 @04:44PM (#14529123)

Well, you start making your own ad blocker to block their ad blockers. And then you charge people money to see content if they're using third party ad blockers.

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