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Re:The DOJ Still Wants Google to Sell Off Chrome by acdha on Saturday March 08, 2025 @08:06PM (#43305177)
Did Chrome pay for the ad placement on Google’s sites? Could Mozilla or Microsoft buy the same spots? Could they pay YouTube to keep the site faster for them than standards-compliant browsers?

If the answer to any of those is no, it’s more than simple advertising.

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Re:The DOJ Still Wants Google to Sell Off Chrome by buzzerbetrayed on Saturday March 08, 2025 @10:28PM (#43305908)
Yes. My biggest gripe with Google is that they prop up unprofitable products with their wildly popular product. It makes competition impossible. YouTube is the perfect example.

I feel like it should be illegal to use your profits in one industry to run a loss leader in a totally separate industry.

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Re:The DOJ Still Wants Google to Sell Off Chrome by notpushkin on Sunday March 09, 2025 @12:12AM (#43306467)
> I feel like it should be illegal to use your profits in one industry to run a loss leader in a totally separate industry.

There’s nothing wrong with running a loss leader, only with squeezing everybody else out.

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Re:The DOJ Still Wants Google to Sell Off Chrome by acdha on Sunday March 09, 2025 @08:53AM (#43308691)
I think the key part is “separate industry” – Google should have had to restrict Chrome promotion to what was available to other browser vendors (e.g. not the Gmail login page because they don’t sell ad space there).
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