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"Conflict of interest" has a precise ethical/legal definition. It doesn't mean "somebody is doing something I don't like".

• titzer 2y ago
  From the Oxford dictionary: conflict of interest, n: a situation in which the concerns or aims of two different parties are incompatible. "the conflict of interest between elected officials and corporate lobbyists"
  • tantalor 2y ago
    Sure that's a colloquial sense, but we're talking about a legal sense here. The legal/ethical sense is where one party has an actual obligation to multiple other parties whose interests are incompatible. For instance, a lawyer who represents both sides of a dispute has a conflict in interest; they cannot faithfully satisfy their obligations to all their clients. In your example you cited a few services, * provide a search engine * provide login * run ads business * provide a web browser But you haven't explained what the legal/ethical obligations are, and where the conflict arises, e.g., how one company cannot possibly fulfill all of those obligations.
    • devnullbrain 2y ago
      >but we're talking about a legal sense here. Yes, because you suddenly brought up the legal definition.