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by _r_o_y_ 2574 days ago
Open Google or Youtube in Edge an you'll see a huge banner advertising Chrome. That use to happen for practically every other browser.
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A company promoting their own products on their own websites is far from being criminal. Amazon.com right now just showed a giant splash for buying an Echoshow on their home page.
Imagine your bank, alphabank has 80% of personal bank accounts and 70% of auto insurance. When you check your transactions, you see a notice: "you could save up to x% by switching to alphacar."

That's the premise behind antitrust (even though in practice, its 50 years behind the times). If you have dominant market share, things that are otherwise lawful^ aren't anymore.

^Antitrust stuff like anti-competitive behaviour isn't criminal regardless.

That is _not_ antitrust.

It would be anti-competitive in your hypothetical if your bank refused to make transactions to your auto insurance company because it was not the bank's insurance company.

Pop-ups in your bank portal are uncomfortable but are not anti-competitive.

The difference is that Google has a near-monopoly in search. Amazon is a behemoth, but there are plenty of alternatives.
There are plenty of alternatives to Google as well.

Popularity != Monopoly