I mean the original lawsuit was for aggressively bundling Internet Explorer and kneecapping other browsers. Which sure sounds a lot like minor variation what they’ve been doing with Edge and Bing for a while now, without consequences. Antitrust enforcement is not something I have a lot of confidence in for the foreseeable future.
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ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This is a genius move to keep you from Google search
Seems more like a genius move to get slapped with another antitrust lawsuit.
sandwichsaregood@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Feelfold@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Corps don’t give a fuck about an antitrust law suit. In the US, the party that pays the most to jerk off CEOs just got put in charge. Even if it was the other party, who only pays slightly less, the most extreme fines are a slap on the wrist. Hell, come Jam 20th it’ll probably a tax write off.
Until the EU levies fines that would kneecap these companies out of business, there is no incentive to change the behavior.