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Re:U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly by ballenf on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @01:52PM (#24840358)
Regardless, it feels like a very shrewd approach: very narrow and also the keystone holding up Google's monopolies in other areas. Not all other areas, but a lot of them.

Prohibiting pay-for-placement can be enforced by accountants and lawyers without help from engineers. Would be theoretically much easier to enforce than any other area of scrutiny I've heard discussed.

This would also kill Firefox if it's applied beyond mobile.

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Re:U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly by Tyr42 on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @03:02PM (#24841147)
So by doing this, they will help Chrome form a monopoly?
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Re:U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly by xenadu02 on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @10:18PM (#24844237)
Possibly? I didn't see anything in the complaint about the use of their search landing page to push Chrome on people. That could be a problem because Chrome always defaults to Google search.

Honestly... what would Chrome's market share be if Google weren't heavily pushing it on everyone who visits google.com?

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