Comment by wvenable
3 years ago
IE is no more but the price for browsers is still free. Most consumers even at the time also did not pay for their browser.
Now these days it would be ridiculous if your device or operating system didn't come with a browser.
> They get paid not in cash but in terms of increasing their monopoly by having so much data on us
Yes, and anyone else can do the same.
The landscape has changed (or to pun... the netscape?).
We now have genuine browser competition. I think Safari and Firefox are just enough to say Chrome is not a monopoly. I write this on FF right now (running on Ubuntu) because it is a viable alternative.
This is the case for now, might be different in 2023.
"X is free" is not enough to be a problem on it's own.