Correct. A classic Microsoft embrace and extend attack. They took out many (potential) competitors during the 90s with similar free as in beer software. As far

Correct. A classic Microsoft embrace and extend attack. They took out many (potential) competitors during the 90s with similar free as in beer software. As far as legitimate goes, I think it was soon rendered against the TOS of the person logging in, tho I don’t find TOS to be a particularly useful concept or practice. Microsoft also gave away http clients and http servers and it cost humanity a lot (for a while) that those attacks succeeded. Now google is attacking by again giving away free software and using their monopoly money to attack competitors. And for the ads, development keep an arbitrary 64k limit on ad sizes so they couldn’t be giant multimedia monstrosities.