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Giving people money to set you as your default browser seems like it might be, idunno, like, maybe a little bit anticompetitive and dystopian
by conartist6 1y ago
Giving people money to set you as your default browser seems like it might be, idunno, like, maybe a little bit anticompetitive and dystopian
- callc 1y agoOr maybe a prime example of healthy capitalism! /s
- bdangubic 1y agogetting an 50 mile Uber ride for $25 when taxi was charging me $100 sure got that app onto my phone... once I had the app on the phone...
- erikig 1y agoIt feels like a natural competitive extension to any company seriously trying to usurp Google's browser domination including but not limited to paying Apple to be the default search engine
- lII1lIlI11ll 1y agoWhy? Sounds quite competitive to me. Making chatgpt only work with their own browser would be anti-competitive.
- username223 1y agoI dunno... it sounds better than giving Apple/Mozilla/etc. dump-trucks of money to make Google my default search engine.
- conartist6 1y agoVery slightly better, but only very slightly, and Google's tactic was ruled illegal anti-competition so this feels like an attempt to find a loophole