[stevenh]

I wish Google would start fighting dirty.

Want to access Facebook mobile? Hope you have an iPhone, because Google pushed a mandatory update last night which banned Facebook from all Android devices.

Want to access Facebook through Chrome? Sorry, it seems that site has been flagged as a malicious piracy hub; however, you might enjoy this 302 redirect to an automatically-generated clone of your Facebook profile hosted on a safer alternative called Google Plus.

[AdieuToLogic]

Are you sure this is the kind of thing you'd want to have happen? Really, really sure?

Because this kind of censorship and manipulation may be acceptable to you when it's Facebook that's targeted at the moment. But what would you do when this kind of action is taken against some other entity that you want to access?

[Tyr42]

That's when you get slapped with an antitrust lawsuit.

[crgt]

I could maybe see an antitrust lawsuit if Google dropped Facebook from search, because of their dominant market share there. But neither Android nor Chrome is a monopoly, so it's unclear to me how much legal risk they have if they stopped playing nice with Facebook there. Am I missing something?

[cmdrfred]

andddd then this happens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp_v_Commission

[blumkvist]

You wanna bet how fast people will ditch chrome for FF and android for Windows?