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by BlueTemplar 613 days ago
Valve Corporation is one of such private companies, mostly known these days for its Steam game updates and store platform.

Being private didn't prevent it turning into a monopsony, ironically for the discussion, maybe because its competitors were mostly public companies (and so didn't care enough to do a good job) ?

They are not immune to walled garden issues though (SteamWorks), but maybe their private structure helped enshittification to proceed much slower ?