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How is that monopolistic if we are able to change our default search engine?
This isn't the first time that something being the default was considered part of a monopoly case. Most notably internet explorer in the Microsoft monopoly case.
The big thing is that even if there are other options... A lot of people won't ever bother to change it.
The same way one is able to change the default browser on any OS? Because a lot of people claim that FF downfall is exclusively due "other browsers" being the default.
I've been using Firefox since 2018 and I wish I started to use it much earlier than that but sorry this sounds like a lame excuse. Edge came as a default browser but no one used it when it was built on EdgeHTML engine. People love it now because with Chromium it is a better browser now.
It’s anti-competitive to other search engines and advertisers.
@[email protected] @[email protected] IMO it would be monopolistic if Google forced Mozilla to remove the ability to change the default search engine. But if you want Mozilla to ask users which search engine they would like to set as default during initialization of the browser even after dealing with Google, that would definitely be nice.