While I think an antitrust suit against Google would be a waste of time, they really need to stop recommending Chrome every time you do a Google search with a different browser. Just stop, that will not play well to a jury.
I think you meant "I don't want them found guilty" which is a different thing. If you really think there is no case to answer I don't think you understand what an antitrust case is about. It's about market dominance and anti competitive behaviour. Something alphabet has already demonstrated they are capable of doing, as in when google, Facebook and apple agreed not to poach Staff and altered the pay rates accordingly, something of which they have already been found guilty.
If this goes to a jury, Google will definitely get off. I seriously hope that doesn't happen.
I'm not saying that I think Google is innocent but often the evidence is very difficult for the lay person to interpret (especially when it is absent).
Which is exactly why they'd get off.
It looks like they also make other browsers pay for ads while they post their own ads for "Google's Official Browser" at no cost:
https://i.imgur.com/iwymopx.png
Sometimes it's in a new top bar on the page but cannot remember if that's only on Gmail.
Damn, that is some duplicitous ad copy, especially in light of recent events.
Every time I see that pop up, I think “does it block pop ups like this?”
Honestly, I see no difference between that scenario and this. If anything, Google has been a lot more guilty than for just monopolizing on a browser here.
Chrome wasn't seemingly to target anyone. Google generally makes more money if people use the internet more, so spending to make browsers better has some obvious benefits.
One example among the many things the court found they did was to tell OEMs that they wouldn't license Windows to them if they _also_ included Netscape preinstalled in their computers.
The stated purpose, from internal emails, was to prevent Java from becoming the de-facto API for writing applications, which at the time was win32. This was a gigantic barrier of entry that protected Windows' monopoly and they did all those shady things to keep it raised.
> The Sherman Act broadly prohibits (1) anticompetitive agreements and (2) unilateral conduct that monopolizes or attempts to monopolize the relevant market.
You don’t have to get very abstract at all to see how Google may violating it. Microsoft lost their antitrust case in regards to how they distributed Internet Explorer, another free product.
Been going on for a year now.
* If you type Chrome into Bing you'll get a full page ad urging you not to switch.
* If you try to switch to use Chrome as your default browser it will ask you if you're really sure and you have to click the tiny text to actually switch.
* Edge and Windows 10 will send you notifications about Edge being the recommended browser and it's speed/security/whatever.
* If you install Adobe Reader and check "set as my default PDF reader" Windows 10 will send you a notification saying that "there's something wrong with your default reader app" and set it back to Edge.
* In the start menu Edge gets special treatment by having flavor text that says it's the Microsoft recommended browser.
* You have to use 3rd pary hacks to get the start menu search to use anything other than Edge & Bing.
* Microsoft teated a feature on insider builds which intercepted the installers for Chrome and Firefox and displayed a pop-up asking them to use Edge instead.
* Before they got backlash for it, once you switched your default browser to something not Edge Windows would open up your new browser to an ad for Edge.
From 2014 though.
defaults write com.apple.coreservices.uiagent CSUIRecommendSafariNextNotificationDate -date 2050-01-01T00:00:00Z
However, if you like to disable the notifications: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/153379/how-do-you-...