Unfortunately, the highest searched thing on bing is 'download Google chrome'. It's the users who are such big fans of google.
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Yea, I have lost all sympathy for people having our information stolen and for the growth of these mega corporations because nobody gives a shit until its too late. I encourage more of this stuff so people realize maybe they should have fought back decades ago or hell even now to prevent this stuff
And why are they such big fans of google? At least in part (I'd argue almost entirely) because of the pervasive advertising and attempts to monopolise.
I use mainly Andisearch and Mojeek. I can't remember when I used Google or Bing the last time. Only sometimes with the Startpage or Whoogle front-end, or with DDG and MetaGer instead of Bing.
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Fun things. Though I'm not sure if anything like this is necessary even. Considering how much people tend to care about what these companies are doing and are willingly putting everything into their hands.
Now to be fair, I can't really blame people that much. There is a lot to worry about and care about in this world, especially with the 247 news blasting us from every direction about disasters, wars, tensions, climate change etc. You have limited about of "caring" in you and gotta filter out the rest of the shit to keep your sanity. Tech companies are probably nor very high in the list. Which is why the big boys like governments and EU etc should do the heavy lifting but yeah, that has been going really well for the past 20 years.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Google has exploited its dominance of the internet search market to lock out competitors and smother innovation, the Department of Justice said Tuesday at the opening of the biggest U.S. antitrust trial in a quarter century.
Over the next 10 weeks, federal lawyers and state attorneys general will try to prove Google rigged the market in its favor by locking in its search engine as the default choice in a plethora of places and devices.
The Justice Department filed its antitrust lawsuit against Google nearly three years ago during the Trump administration, alleging that the company has used its internet search dominance to gain an unfair advantage against competitors.
Government lawyers say Google protects its franchise through a form of payola, shelling out billions of dollars annually to be the default search engine on the iPhone and on web browsers such as Apple’s Safari and Mozilla’s Firefox.
“There are lots of way users access the web other than default search engines, and people use them all the time,’’ said attorney John Schmidtlein, a partner at the law firm Williams & Connolly which is representing Google.
The trial begins just a couple weeks after the 25th anniversary of the first investment in Google — a $100,000 check written by Sun Microsystems co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim that enabled Page and Sergey Brin to set up shop in a Silicon Valley garage.
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Mfers writing this like it’s news to everyone. I’m just checking but we all knew this type of shit has been going on since forever right?
I mean “competing” against your competitor isn’t just selling more toasters than they do anymore.
Welcome to the Information Age 🫠
Monopoly power invariably leads to corruption, the law of the ~~jungle~~ market. Above all, the American market is corrupted to the core, that is where Google, at least until now, was able to act as it wanted.