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Re:All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of thei... by eru on Thursday May 01, 2025 @05:58AM (#43855627)
> That is a cartel.

Wikipedia says:

> A cartel is a group of independent market participants who collude with each other as well as agreeing not to compete with each other[1] in order to improve their profits and dominate the market. A cartel is an organization formed by producers to limit competition and increase prices by creating artificial shortages through low production quotas, stockpiling, and marketing quotas. Jurisdictions frequently consider cartelization to be anti-competitive behavior, leading them to outlaw cartel practices.

What you are alleging sounds bad, but it doesn't sound like a particularly good match for the term 'cartel'.

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Re:All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of thei... by eru on Thursday May 01, 2025 @01:59PM (#43861155)
Not all things we dislike are the same. The same in politics: people there often have the tendency to call everyone they dislike either a Nazi or a communist. Totally ignoring that there are many, many different and exciting varieties of bad.

I used to work for Google for a few years for what it's worth.

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