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In light of articles all over Lemmy about Google pushing ManifestV3 onto Chrome and the majority of web users, isn't that an antitrust violation? (www.ftc.gov)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So as I understand it, Google’s using it’s monopoly market position to force web “standards” unilaterally (without an independent/conglomerate web specification standards where Google is only one of many voices) that will disadvantage its competitors and force people to leave its competitors.

I'm not a lawyer, and I'm a fledgling tech guy, but this sounds like abuse of a monopoly. Google which serves 75% of the world's ads and has 75% of the browser market share seems to want to use its market power to annihilate people's privacy and control over their web experience.

So we can file a complaint with FTC led by Lina Khan who has been the biggest warrior against abuse by big tech in the US.

https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/report-antitrust-violation

We can also file a complaint with the DOJ:

https://www.justice.gov/atr/citizen-complaint-center

And there have to be EU, UK, Indian, Chinese, and Japanese organizations that we can file antitrust complaints to.

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[-] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

So a bit of speed short term, is enough to sacrifice your freedom long term?

Obviously I know it was faster, what I don't get is that people had no principles, and was ready to give everything up to a company clearly trying to control the Internet.

And that was even so shortly after we had similar problems with Microsoft, that we have now with Google.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I could understand your argument if we're talking about the choice today but don't act like Google 15 years ago was the same as it is today. They are vastly different companies.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

i’m not sure you quite remember the leap in performance that chrome was.. it was night and day, and literally ushered in the era of performance being an actual concern for browsers

as much as i hate google, you’ve gotta credit them with starting that

and at the start, many (myself included) believed that googles motivation was to make the web fast to compete with native apps (they wanted the web platform to be what everyone used on their phones), because google can serve web ads across all platforms on the web, but native they mostly only control android

that still might have been the entirety of their original intent too! but now they have that dominance, they’re being evil with it

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