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Indeed it is! We have a wonderful mechanism that handles this situation: a free market. We've already seen far greater market share from a browser. That browse
by kauffj 8y ago
Indeed it is! We have a wonderful mechanism that handles this situation: a free market.
We've already seen far greater market share from a browser. That browser lost it's market share when it stopped serving consumers. It lost it so thoroughly that decades and billions later it still can't recoup it.
Why would you want the government to hurt Firefox and the other competitors who would be happy to compete with Google on this front?
- 50656E6973 8y agoIts not a free market
- dymk 8y agoBrowser choice is most certainly a free market. Microsoft, Mozilla, and Apple all develop their own, and their browsers are not beholden to the same pressures as Google (i.e. to not block ads).
- bk_avalara 8y agoExcept for the Microsoft part, yes: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/12/06/microsoft-edge-making-the-web-better-through-more-open-source-collaboration/ https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/12/06/micro...
- Bizarro 8y agoIt's not a free market, so let's make it less of a free market by getting the government involved. That's the plan, right?
- Zarath 8y agoYou, like so many others, are conflating "ideal" market and "free" market. Free markets do not always behave ideally, and ideal markets is really what we should be aiming for.
- 50656E6973 8y agoEhhh...you could probably just take away all the government protections such as patents and subsidies/tax breaks instead
- mishac 8y agoYou appear to be forgetting that a huge part of the story was government action to limit the power of the company that made that browser, both in the US and especially in the EU.