Google violated antitrust law, spending billions to create an illegal monopoly and become the world's default search engine, a US judge ruled

Really? We still enforce antitrust laws?

Wait until they get to the bit where they illegally scraped content from tens of millions of content creators / publishers, passed it off as their own, and then mass deindexed said sites / creators. Such a lovely company.

Almost like Warren Buffett saw how this would impact Apple. 🤔

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Yep and you also benefit from it 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

Whenever I set up a new browser, I ALWAYS go to 'settings' & set the default browser to something OTHER THAN Google -- ALWAYS. I go to Google when I can't find what I'm looking for on at least 3 other search engines -- that rarely happens ....