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Re:Google gets away almost scot-free in US search antitrust ... by bix6 on Monday September 08, 2025 @01:54PM (#45171520)
That’s not my entire argument I just started going a rabbit hole to show how tied in it all is.

Google pays Apple to be the default search engine.

Google transmits our data undersea.

You can’t easily avoid them!

Re:Google gets away almost scot-free in US search antitrust ... by raw_anon_1111 on Monday September 08, 2025 @02:07PM (#45171703)
And you can change your search engine. If you have evidence that someone Google has quantum computers that allows it decrypt encrypted traffic, I’m sure people would like to know.

But no one has been proposing that Google not be allowed to have underseas cables

Re:Google gets away almost scot-free in US search antitrust ... by bix6 on Monday September 08, 2025 @02:44PM (#45172152)
Yeah because metadata isn’t important…

The argument is that you can cut Google out of your life. The reality is you can’t and many don’t even realize how deeply intertwined it is.

Re:Google gets away almost scot-free in US search antitrust ... by raw_anon_1111 on Monday September 08, 2025 @03:45PM (#45172997)
You don’t think that’s going deep down the rabbit hole to show that Google is a monopoly to say that it owns a few of the under seas pipes? How much of an American’s traffic do you think goes over Google’s pipelines?
Re:Google gets away almost scot-free in US search antitrust ... by bix6 on Monday September 08, 2025 @04:46PM (#45173763)
Well apparently it’s around ¾ of the traffic.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.12253