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Considering the main economic interests against Google here are ad companies or companies that also source revenue from online ads, that's not gonna fly. This i
by morpheuskafka 6y ago
Considering the main economic interests against Google here are ad companies or companies that also source revenue from online ads, that's not gonna fly. This is just a game between economic rivals, no one cares about consumers' privacy or not seeing obnoxious ads.
- olliej 6y agoWe do however care when the competition is not fair - as is the case when the indisputably dominating browser it shipped by the indisputably dominating ad company. The browser monopoly is used to benefit their ad monopoly, while also adding features design to cripple the tracking by other ad companies. That’s the exact type of behaviour that antitrust laws are intended to stop. Seriously the only reason there is any non-google decisions about web apis is mobile safari.
- jancsika 6y agoI'd venture to guess most of those senators have never experienced what it's like to browse the web or watch youtube without ads. The cost to programmers of interacting with people who aren't also programmers is apparently very high.