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[โ€“] rainerloeten@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just wanna add that one reason this monopoly is dangerous is that Google (could and nowadays) does use it to dictate "web standards". So e.g. they don't come anymore from organizations that develop standards but Google just forces their own standards by sheer power of market dominance.

[โ€“] N4CHEM@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Yes! I failed to dive deeper, but you expressed it well. They have already planned to remove the option to have ad-blockers in Chrome... what will come next?