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[–] mojo@lemm.ee 100 points 3 years ago (4 children)

This was overwhelming rejected by everyone, including Microsoft, Mozilla, Safari, and others. It's universally disliked, and Google knows this, but they intentionally know they're abusing their monopoly to push anti-consumer bullshit.

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[–] ZeroCool@feddit.ch 13 points 3 years ago (2 children)

It sure would be nice if the US still pretended to care about consumers and breaking up monopolies.

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[–] mojo@lemm.ee 4 points 3 years ago

I was born way after that may have ever happened, so sounds more like a fairy tale to me

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[–] bobman@unilem.org 2 points 3 years ago*

The solution to breaking up monopolies is nationalization.

All of a sudden, we're paying less money and have way more rights. It's why the USPS can't open your mail without probably cause but fedex and ups can.

Rich people and their dick-suckers will be upset. But who cares about them anyways?

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[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago

I opened the browser at the library to print a pre employment drug screen form today. The browser had a pop up asking to review settings, it looked like you could tell them not to use ads this way, but damn I wish I would have read it now. Not my computer and it reboots to clear the profile when you "log out" so I didnt spend the time

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