Comment by buzzerbetrayed
1 year ago
Yes. My biggest gripe with Google is that they prop up unprofitable products with their wildly popular product. It makes competition impossible. YouTube is the perfect example.
I feel like it should be illegal to use your profits in one industry to run a loss leader in a totally separate industry.
> I feel like it should be illegal to use your profits in one industry to run a loss leader in a totally separate industry.
There’s nothing wrong with running a loss leader, only with squeezing everybody else out.
I think the key part is “separate industry” – Google should have had to restrict Chrome promotion to what was available to other browser vendors (e.g. not the Gmail login page because they don’t sell ad space there).