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Bad analogy. A gas buyer is still making a choice. Google pays Apple to eliminate the need for choice. And Apple users are accustomed to choices being made fo
by jqpabc123 3y ago
Bad analogy. A gas buyer is still making a choice.
Google pays Apple to eliminate the need for choice. And Apple users are accustomed to choices being made for them.
- neodymiumphish 3y agoThere's no world where it's monopolistic to be the default choice when other choices exist. They're making no effort, so far as anyone is aware, to remove other search engine choices from any devices or browsers.
- neodymiumphish 3y agoAnd for the record, I'm no fan of Google at all. I use a different search engine on all of my devices (was a huge Neeva evangelist until they got bought and gutted by Snowflake, currently jumping between Bing and SearXNG). But the fact remains that paying to be the default option among a half dozen or more search engines for users to choose from is not "maintaining a monopoly" by any definition.