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>>pabs3+(OP)
It isn't just "make ad-blocking (near) impossible" as the current title of the submission suggests. It is:

Make browsing the internet possible only on Chrome, Safari or Edge (with no modifications or extensions). No competition allowed in browsers.

Make browsing the internet possible only on macOS, Windows, Android or iOS (no custom Android distributions, definitely no LineageOS or GrapheneOS or whatever). No competition allowed in Operating Systems, especially no open source operating systems.

Make crawling the internet possible only to Google. No private crawling and no competing search engines.

Let me know if I've missed anything...

>>Adverb+T5
If successful, that would make the anti-trust suites against MS seem like childs play.

>>hef198+r8
> “We (Microsoft) are in a very unique position to be able to go spend Sony out of business,” said Booty in a December 2019 email, referencing spending $2 billion or $3 billion in 2020 to avoid competitors getting ahead in content at a later date.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/26/23774547/microsoft-sony-x...

The FTC lost that case.

I think at this point, if a big tech executive avoids doing something due to the threat of antitrust lawsuits, they're just incompetent.