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Comment by marricks | Hacker News Reader

Chrome and Google search have their own nudges right? I get many notifications from gmail telling me to install their mail app, or from google search telling me Chrome is better.

What's the legal argument that could apply to one but not the other? Chrome has a better case of being called a monopoly in the browser space.

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As far as I remember, I only see "Install the Gmail app!" nudges when I'm using Gmail web. Same for Yahoo mail and other "free" services.

Searching in Chrome for "Microsoft Edge download" results in no nudges to keep using Chrome (on my MBP). Same for Safari - no nudges to keep using it when I search "Firefox download" or "Chrome download".

So, MS is using their dominance in the desktop OS market to drive use of their browser. And then adding friction (via nudges and surveys) to retain that browser marketshare.

Maybe the previous poster is talking about when Google Search advertised for Google Chrome too.

They're doing this because they know regulators have been asleep at the wheel for decades. If they do wake up and make a fuss, they can roll it back and pay a small fine.

And Windows has a better case of being called a monopoly in the desktop space. Preferably both of these should be met with antitrust suits.

Break them all up!

The FTC has been finally doing it's job recently, so unless the other side wins the next election and guts them, I think the tech industry might actually have a future that isn't just more miserable dystopia.

Chrome's nudges aren't built into the product that we paid a lot of money for?

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