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by merrywhether 879 days ago
> choice for the user

I find it ironic when this is framed as user choice when it is being lobbied by massive corporate interests for their own benefit.

Epic wants to give you the “choice” to download Fortnite from exactly one place, forcing you to install their App Store if you want to engage in that fairly important social network.

Google wants to give you the “choice” to help create total Chrome hegemony, giving them an absolute monopoly on web tracking once they disable 3P cookies this year. Is the DMA going to step in there and give users the choice to configure their tracking engine in that monopolistic market?

How many recursions of choice will DMA protect? Or was there already choice in the form of Android as people continually point out?