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izacus on May 16, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Justice Department, states likely to bring antitru...

If that would be true, Chrome would never become popular either. It's not a default browser on Windows, macOS or Linux. And yet people installed it anyway to the point it became the most popular browser. So your point of 99% people not touching defaults is nonsense. Even on Android Chrome isn't the default browser - Samsung Browser is (with Samsung being by far the most popular OEM).

Android isn't iOS where you're not allowed to replace the browser at all.

throwawayy1001 on May 16, 2020 [–]

Google used its other monopoly, in search to aggressively promote chrome.

“Upgrade to a safe browser”.

They always use their monopolies (video, search, maps) to venture into different markets.

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