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What they do with Amazon basics is ripe for antitrust. Using purchase data to find profitable products, and making a basic version of it which they then rank at the top.
Is Amazon Basics any different than any other store brand? It's not like national retailers before amazon were just throwing darts at a printout of their catalog.
I was the biggest Google fan ever. I recommended all their products to everyone I know. Gone are those days. I now trust Microsoft (heh! M!cr0$0ft, anyone?) more than Google which is strange given I grew up rebelling against MS’s technical desktop hegemony. I wonder when Google decided “doing evil” was okay. I wonder how the SWE’s and other senior people in this thread feel about working for a company that many now c…
I wonder how the SWE’s and other senior people in this thread feel about working for a company that many now consider scum. All their excuses and retorts can honestly take a hike: It is my honest opinion that if you still work for Google you’re selling us all out. Googler here, I understand why you may think Google is evil now and I'm not going to say they are a perfect company. But I think you should consider that i…
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Everyone who uses AWS essentially gives data signals to Amazon. As they're by far the biggest cloud provider, that's a lot of data. Add that to their physical goods store, their shipping, their payments, their music store, their player apps, their subscription data, their identity and payment data. Amazon's looking at getting into the consumer communications business too. If I were a bad person asking, "Who's more va…
The idea that data stored on AWS is equal to data collected by Amazon is ludicrous. There are contracts and laws to govern such relationships. Hundreds of people inside Amazon would know about it, and any one of them could expose them to existentially threatening lawsuits whenever they are even slightly upset with their employer.
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[citation needed]
Really? I mean, pick one of a hundred. They are deprecating APIs that would block the interception and are ignoring community pushback. But since you asked... https://bgr.com/2019/05/31/google-chrome-update-ad-blockers-... https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evy53j/google-struggles-t... https://9to5google.com/2019/05/29/chrome-ad-blocking-enterpr... But I mean, that was a 2 second search. Citations are indeed hard to…
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Which raises deep suspicions about the political motivations of this "investigation". Anti-trust is about companies using their market power to exclude rivals, raise prices, and hurt consumers. It's not about consumers overwhelmingly choosing a product because they like it more. Can anyone really say that Google's practices are more anti-competitive than, say, the dominant players in broadband or health insurance or…
> Anti-trust is about companies using their market power to exclude rivals, raise prices, and hurt consumers. It's not about consumers overwhelmingly choosing a product because they like it more. Antitrust doesn’t care about how you got market dominance. It cares about what you do with it. To use the browser example I used elsewhere: maybe Google’s dominance in search is because it’s indisputably the best. But that d…
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> nor can I buy car insurance from my health insurance company.
https://www.statefarm.com/insurance/health/individual-medica...
and bundling deals: https://www.statefarm.com/insurance/multiline
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Shrug. Windows 10 keeps nudging me to use Edge.
Ha! Nudging is an understatement. * If you type Chrome into Bing you'll get a full page ad urging you not to switch. * If you try to switch to use Chrome as your default browser it will ask you if you're really sure and you have to click the tiny text to actually switch. * Edge and Windows 10 will send you notifications about Edge being the recommended browser and it's speed/security/whatever. * If you install Adobe…
For everyone here squealing with glee: This will be just another Tuesday for the legal team at Big G ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You can't seriously believe this. The US bringing a case a vastly more a BFD than Europe's prodding at companies for cash.
Doubt it'll happen in this case...people want blood from Google or FB, and they're going to get it.
Other commenters had it right, though - ISPs, and lobbyists should be hanging next to them.
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> Anti-trust is about companies using their market power to exclude rivals, raise prices, and hurt consumers. It's not about consumers overwhelmingly choosing a product because they like it more. Antitrust doesn’t care about how you got market dominance. It cares about what you do with it. To use the browser example I used elsewhere: maybe Google’s dominance in search is because it’s indisputably the best. But that d…
> I can’t get a discount on cellular because I’m a FiOS customer https://www.verizonwireless.com/promos/verizon-fios-installa... > nor can I buy car insurance from my health insurance company. https://www.statefarm.com/insurance/health/individual-medica... and bundling deals: https://www.statefarm.com/insurance/multiline