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by mav3rick 2654 days ago
That is such BS. Microsoft is making it increasingly harder to use a different browser on their OS. No mention of that. When they do it, "it's their OS, it's fair". Google is not forcing anyone to install this browser nor does it auto install when you navigate to Google search.
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ardy42 2654 days ago
> That is such BS. Microsoft is making it increasingly harder to use a different browser on their OS. No mention of that. When they do it, "it's their OS, it's fair".

What's with the attitude? I listed Microsoft as an example of anti-competitive behavior. How did you get from there to thinking I'd penned some kind of endorsement of Microsoft?

> Google is not forcing anyone to install this browser nor does it auto install when you navigate to Google search.

The problem is that they're using (or used) their dominance in one area as leverage to gain dominance in another area.

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eitland 2654 days ago
> Google is not forcing anyone to install this browser nor does it auto install when you navigate to Google search.

Making it so that a number of the worlds largest properties only work in your own browser comes very close to "forcing" in my opinion.

When should a company be forced to make sure its products works with other companies products? Thats not for me to decide but personally I think there's some extra responsibility for very large companies and personally I'm surprised they haven't been hit with one or two major lawsuits over Chrome yet.

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