Report an Antitrust Violation
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If you have a question or comment about an antitrust issue, submit it to the Bureau of Competition by one of the methods below.

So as I understand it, Google’s using it’s monopoly market position to force web “standards” unilaterally (without an independent/conglomerate web specification standards where Google is only one of many voices) that will disadvantage its competitors and force people to leave its competitors.

I’m not a lawyer, and I’m a fledgling tech guy, but this sounds like abuse of a monopoly. Google which serves 75% of the world’s ads and has 75% of the browser market share seems to want to use its market power to annihilate people’s privacy and control over their web experience.

So we can file a complaint with FTC led by Lina Khan who has been the biggest warrior against abuse by big tech in the US.

https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/report-antitrust-violation

We can also file a complaint with the DOJ:

https://www.justice.gov/atr/citizen-complaint-center

And there have to be EU, UK, Indian, Chinese, and Japanese organizations that we can file antitrust complaints to.

  • Molecular0079@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    1 year ago

    why people were so quick to adopt Chrome which was Google controlled from the start.

    Because for a long time Chrome was just much faster. It wasn’t until a couple of months ago that Firefox started becoming performant enough for me to use as a daily driver. Even then, there’s still issues with how slow it takes Mozilla to implement new web technologies like WebGPU, etc.

    • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      53·
      1 year ago

      Yes because a bit faster short term, is worth sacrificing you freedom long term?

      I will never get people like you.

      • MrMonkey@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        because a bit faster short term

        Waaaaaaay more than “a bit”. Like “imperceptible render time” vs 2s for firefox. That adds up a lot.

        is worth sacrificing you freedom long term?

        What freedom did I lose? I used chromium mostly.

        Firefox has performance now, where it did’t in the past. So I don’t use chrome now.

        See, I use the best tool for the job I can find, and that changes over time. For a while the was Chrome.

      • shotgun_crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Most people have no idea or don’t care at all about privacy on the internet. Google has a solid set of “free” services that work well and a good enough reputation to convince them.

        • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Wow you got 2 downvotes for stating an absolutely true statement, that describes a HUGE problem.

          For us to lose all our rights and freedoms, it only takes enough people not to care. And that’s the problem.

          Google apps are a huge surveillance machine that absolutely threaten our freedom. Most people just don’t give a shit, because it’s convenient.