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Re:'Break up big tech's monopoly': Smaller rivals join growi... by bagacrap on Friday January 17, 2020 @02:33PM (#22078287)
I wasn't aware anti-trust extended to cover "creepy" behavior and "not offering support [for free services]".

Literally every Google product has a competitor and the cost of switching is very low unless you're talking about their hardware, which is hardly successful much less dominant.

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Re:'Break up big tech's monopoly': Smaller rivals join growi... by bhauer on Friday January 17, 2020 @03:20PM (#22078788)
> Literally every Google product has a competitor and the cost of switching is very low unless you're talking about their hardware, which is hardly successful much less dominant.

Windows and Internet Explorer always had competition. The cost of switching to Netscape and later Firefox was extremely low. That did not stop people from referring to Windows and IE as monopolies in the past. With Windows, some still call it a monopoly today.

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