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by jimbob45 23 hours ago
YouTube has never seriously had competition and AliBaba has been around almost as long as Amazon.
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> YouTube has never seriously had competition

While saying this did you not consider that subsidized Chinese companies would claim the exact same, with at least the same amount of legitimacy? The whole idea of monopolization is that it becomes impossible for competition to arise.

You also forgot to mention Uber which has had numerous competitors, both on the taxi front as well as food delivery.

> AliBaba has been around almost as long as Amazon.

No idea why it matters how long a company has existed. There are hundreds of thousands of companies that have been around for 2-3 decades.