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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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