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Re:Google will turn on native ad-blocking in Chrome on Febru... by paulmd on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @09:56AM (#15970017)
Because there are multiple competing products you can switch to, or even multiple additional products (i.e. ublock/adblock) which you can add in Google's own product if you disagree with their stance.

It's not anti-competitive just because you don't like it.

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Re:Google will turn on native ad-blocking in Chrome on Febru... by juliangoldsmith on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @10:13AM (#15970186)
Anti-competitive behavior isn't necessarily monopolistic.

Google is leveraging Chrome's dominant market position to (potentially) harm their competitors in an unrelated market.

You were always able to install Firefox or Chrome on Windows, but Microsoft was fined for using their dominant market position (Windows) to push a product in an unrelated market (web browsers).

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Re:Google will turn on native ad-blocking in Chrome on Febru... by fortythirteen on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @10:15AM (#15970200)
And I used IE to download Netscape. Didn't stop that being anti-competitive.

It's about what the average user is aware of. Google just decided to have the majority of computer and smartphone users be opted in to an ad blocker that, of course, won't block Google ads.

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Re:Google will turn on native ad-blocking in Chrome on Febru... by colanderman on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @12:55PM (#15971974)
Ad companies don't get to choose which browser their ads are viewed with. Google is abusing their position as the market leader in one market to gain an unfair advantage in another market.
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Re:Google will turn on native ad-blocking in Chrome on Febru... by kbwt on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @10:12AM (#15970171)
It's pre-installed. Their built-in adblocker will instantly get a huge market share, on the back of Chrome. There's no parallel to that with physical products.
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Re:Google will turn on native ad-blocking in Chrome on Febru... by ksk on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @11:59AM (#15971323)
Nobody was blocking people from installing Netscape on windows PCs AFAIK.
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