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I also remember how that did nothing to beat IE until someone actually built a better browser - Mozilla/Firebird/Firefox and later Chrome.

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Should that matter? If you do monopoly while having a better product you should still be charge with monopoly. That is you should be forced to gain market share fairly even if your product is better then the competition.

Depends on the country. In the US (as I understand it) a key component to being charge with a monopoly is you have to show that consumers/users are negatively impacted.

Philosophically I don't know whether or not I agree that's best, but it's the way it is currently.

I also remember Google's marketing campaign to shove Chrome in installers for Windows.

Yep, when fighting against the browser that's baked into the operating system.

Then again, Edge now happily sets itself as default browser (and "fixes" default search engine selection) every few weeks on my W10 machine so nothing much has changed in this fight.

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