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Re:YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure ... by apatters on Thursday July 04, 2019 @12:40AM (#20351577)
You can use other search engines, but the only one Mr. G tells you about is their own, and it consistently features YouTube above other sites.

If this kind of behavior from a market leader isn't a textbook anti-trust concern I don't know what is. It's remarkably similar to Microsoft featuring and promoting its own browser at the expense of others. The level of bundling and integration that they were attempting between IE and Windows, and which ultimately got the DoJ to act, has been going on in Android with Search and Chrome from day one.

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Re:YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure ... by makapuf on Thursday July 04, 2019 @01:56AM (#20351927)
Look up "search engine" on google and you find link to alternatives to google, and not google (of course you need to know what a search engine is and that it exists)
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Re:YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure ... by apatters on Thursday July 04, 2019 @12:33PM (#20355885)
It was also possible to use Windows to download alternatives to Internet Explorer.

Microsoft got into hot water not because Windows blocked alternatives, but because it gave preference to Microsoft's own browser. Which is something that is normally perfectly legal and fine, but under US antitrust law it stops being fine once you're the market leader.

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Re:YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure ... by ajanuary on Thursday July 04, 2019 @09:02AM (#20354206)
Even "alternatives to google" gives you a card with "Top 12 Search Engine Alternatives To Google"
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