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Comment by arcticbull

10 months 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.

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vsl  10 months ago

> 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.