Charge: Google Hammering Competitors By Manipulating Browser Extensions

[Nicodeamus]

Google is already facing mounting legal challenges from regulators globally who accuse the tech giant of maintaining an illegal monopoly over its search and digital advertising businesses.

But now one of its most prominent rivals is alleging that the titan is abusing browser extensions to favor its products and stifle competitors, adding a new wrinkle to the high-stakes antitrust debate and momentum to calls for new regulation.

DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg, whose company offers a competing search engine that touts its privacy protections, told myself and Gerrit De Vynck during an interview Tuesday that Google is deploying manipulative design features, known as “dark patterns,” to trick users into abandoning rival products.

Charge: Google Hammering Competitors By Manipulating Browser Extensions

Google is using every available tool and technology to crush its competitors and maintain its dominance in extracting behavioral surplus from humanity. In the 1800s, oil was extracted from the earth; now, Technocrats digitize and extract human behavior for the certainty of control and manipulation.

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[Nicodeamus]

It sounds like desperation, advanced internet users only use google these days to see what is being censored.

 

[backstreetboy]

Good why install an addon when you can change the search engine under settings?

 

[backstreetboy]

It sounds like desperation, advanced internet users only use google these days to see what is being censored.

No I use it because DDG doesn't have proper local search.

 

[Nicodeamus]

No I use it because DDG doesn't have proper local search.

I use https://engine.presearch.org/ that compares results between search engines,