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Depending on the country, dominant market share as a search engine, online advertising platform, web browser, and operating system. And they’ve been claiming to
by AJ007 8y ago
Depending on the country, dominant market share as a search engine, online advertising platform, web browser, and operating system. And they’ve been claiming to be adding their own ad blocking to that web browser for sites that have “too many” ads. I’m not saying regulators should or shouldn’t do specific things, but one should anticipate significant anti-trust actions if Google’s lobbying influence wanes.
On the other hand, Google is getting bigger, expanding and hiring more people as the list of their failed projects increase. The chances of them screwing up their core products seems to be increasing, from my point of view. If they manage to do that, that would negate an inevitable future collision with anti-trust regulators. As for the EU and the GDPR I’m sure we are seeing the earliest warning shots and it’s going to be a big mess for them.