Comment by arcticbull
6 days ago
The product is never free, it’s just you’re not the one paying for it. This setup prevents new entrants from competing just the same.
[edit] the same way zero rating certain data traffic is still a net neutrality violation.
> This setup prevents new entrants from competing just the same.
Look at the new entrant browsers out there: all of them are based on Chromium. The existence of Chrome as an OSS project enabled competition in practice - the cost of entry is orders of magnitude lower when you have a mature browser engine at your disposal.
Not all of them, see: Floorp, Zen Browser, Epiphany, Ladybird, Servo.