Re:Google sued for secretly amassing vast trove of user data
by bubblethink on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @09:47PM
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They are not separate in the monopoly sense though, are they ? Chrome, presumably a cost center, exists only to facilitate google's other businesses. Nobody has punished google for keeping products separate. Quite the contrary. It has always been about extending dominance in one segment to an unrelated one. So google could say that they treat all trackers equally in the incognito mode, and that would be correct, but if google analytics is the revenue center, and the cost center is giving it a free pass, the argument that other trackers can also bypass incognito seems weak.
Re:Google sued for secretly amassing vast trove of user data
by jlbnjmn on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @08:10PM
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How is combining tracking data keeping the products separate?
Re:Google sued for secretly amassing vast trove of user data
by joshuamorton on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @08:21PM
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What tracking data is being "combined"? I see nothing suggesting that data from chrome is combined with anything else.
If you start from the axiom that Google should be broken up, this is a reasonable conclusion. But punishing a company for keeping separate products separate would actually undermine most anti-monopoly law.