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Jam's avatar

> DuckDuckGo is not trying to compete for a broader market. They’re not really competing for defaults.

Duckduckgo testified several weeks ago in this courtroom that they struggled to get browsers to set them as the default: https://www.bigtechontrial.com/p/what-is-it-like-to-compete-against

> Next, Weinberg testified about the attempts DuckDuckGo made over the course of several years to pitch browsers on making DuckDuckGo the default search engine for their private browsing mode. “We thought it was a pretty great pitch to browsers,” Weinberg said.

> But Weinberg explained that DuckDuckGo couldn’t penetrate the default agreements Google already had in place with browsers that prevented the browsers from using a different default for private browsing. DuckDuckGo’s pitch to browsers turned out to be a “quixotic exercise.”

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Dennis Angel's avatar

As an economist I wrote off so-called economists like Murphy and the worst of them all, Milton Friedman, long ago. For all their brilliance, they are all complete idiots, never understanding the real world effect of their work. No one needs to be an economist to realize that the corporate consolidation creates monopolies giving corporations market power to charge prices that generate excess profits. I love telling these jerks the economics is NOT A SCIENCE.

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