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It's normal if you're a store someone can go elsewhere to do business. It should be illegal if you're a global monopoly where it's nearly impossible to functio
by ocdtrekkie 4y ago
It's normal if you're a store someone can go elsewhere to do business.
It should be illegal if you're a global monopoly where it's nearly impossible to function in modern society without an account to.
The problem I see time and time again, is that Google acts like it is completely unaware it's a monopoly.
- adastra22 4y agoHow is google a monopoly? I get by just fine without it.
- dangrossman 4y agoYou might be fine now, but what if you want to open a physical store/restaurant/etc next year? If you're banned from Google, you'd have no control over your business profile on Google, can't respond to reviews, can't update your store hours and other details, can't advertise on maps, etc.
- gus_massa 4y agoDo you have an Android phone? It's getting harder to use them without a Google account. In my university, professors and old T.A. have a mix of gmail, hotmail and yahoo, let's say 1/3, 1/3 and 1/3. But students have almost 100% emails from gmail. I't not a monopoly, but it's getting very close.
- adastra22 4y agoNo I don’t use Android on any device.
- kube-system 4y agoSome people wrote letters in 1980. That ain’t a defense of Ma Bell.
- adastra22 4y agoThere are multiple email providers. There are multiple phone providers. You want to argue this is a duopoly? Ok. But it is demonstrably not a monopoly.
- kube-system 4y agoChrome‘s market share is on par with 90s windows. Google search is above that. G-apps on android is on par with ma bell. Monopolists of the past are jealous of how many monopolies google is getting away with. Google abuses these positions to decide what web technologies the web uses, which businesses get found on the web and which don’t, and how android device manufacturers build their phones.
- javajosh 4y agoAn email monopoly, perhaps, but not a comms monopoly. I bet the students have snapchat, whatsapp, fb messanger, etc maybe signal or telegram too. Plus mms and phone for 2fa. But yeah, email is quite special for password recovery so its a good point you're making.
- hedora 4y agoYou probably don't get by without it entirely. Set up a DNS black hole for all of TLS's TLDs, and watch your local network collapse. (Having said that, I more-or-less never log into my google account, and also don't intentionally use any of their services.)
- bornfreddy 4y ago> ...for all of TLS's TLDs,... Curious what you meant by that? Which TLDs are that and why would my local network collapse?
- hedora 4y agoMy keyboard autocorrected Google to TLS. Huh.
- kube-system 4y agoNot everyone used windows in 1994, either. What they both have/had are significant market shares in certain markets that they abuse to maintain control.