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by ascorbic 707 days ago
Worth caring about because they have a browser monopoly. It's not allowed for the exact same reason why in the olden days Microsoft wasn't allowed to add APIs to Windows that could only be used by IE, even if it made things better for IE users. It harmed users in the overall market by making it harder to compete.
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asr 705 days ago
> in the olden days Microsoft wasn't allowed to add APIs to Windows that could only be used by IE

This is not true.

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ascorbic 705 days ago
It was at a central point in the antitrust case against them in the 90s, and was found to be an anticompetitive practice.
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