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Because they don't want to get sued for monopolistic practices, I guess. Since the Goo owns Chrome and Youtube, Youtube blocking non-chrome user agents would be
by BizarroLand 2y ago
Because they don't want to get sued for monopolistic practices, I guess. Since the Goo owns Chrome and Youtube, Youtube blocking non-chrome user agents would be actionable.
Even if they whitelisted Safari, that would still be actionable.
- carstenhag 2y agoIt's not just YouTube blocking something. It's Google not paying Mozilla millions for keeping Google as default search engine
- AlienRobot 2y agoI don't believe a court would tell Google it has to provide a service for free.
- BizarroLand 2y agoAny competent lawyer could easily make the argument that that is a false equivalence. They're not being forced to provide a service for free, they're not being allowed to ostracize essentially the only browser with any meaningful percentage of users that doesn't use their web engine as that is an anti-competitive and monopolistic practice.