[EMIRELADERO]

Whatever happened to legislation? I bet most people here would have said the same about Apple's App Store monopoly on iOS, and yet the EU passed the DMA and the matter was closed.

There's no reason why the same can't happen here. The defeatism attitude helps with nothing and is part of the reason why this happens in the first place.

[paulmd]

EU passing the DMA is literally the specific reason why google is unstoppable. They finally cracked the last significant holdout against chrome/chromium market dominance, now there is nobody left to oppose them in the browser market.

[dzikimarian]

This "holdout", also pushes for device attestation, disguised as captcha avoidance.

https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/how-to-bypass-website-captc...

[EMIRELADERO]

Except that if that happens the government will come at them just like they did to Apple.

They considered it enough that Apple had a monopoly on distribution for apps for a device with ~50% marketshare in the US, and even less in Europe.

Imagine what they would do for something that has ~97%

[paulmd]

Chrome/Chromium is already above 75% marketshare and the EU doesn’t care, and is taking moves that will actively increase consolidation and monopoly control.

We’re literally in the thread where we’re talking about the anti-consumer moves that are resulting from that consolidation. This is what it looks like when Google flexes that monopoly control and tells you how it’s going to be. EU doesn’t seem to care.

[EMIRELADERO]

> Chrome/Chromium is already above 75% marketshare and the EU doesn’t care, and is taking moves that will actively increase consolidation and monopoly control.

It took roughly 15 years for the EU to react to Apple's practices, and they have been anticompetitive from day one.

Chrome has caused no competitive damage to consumers or competitors (yet), give it time.