This is crossing the line where the governments should step in and ban/fine google heavilly for this monopol behavior
The governments are the ones who needs the most. They want to know who all the potential and current dissidents are.
I agree. There are pretty clear grounds here to think about opening an investigation here into illegal tying, or a misuse of market power. Not sure if the FTC maintains a presence on here, but if you're listening...
Instead, our governments use this crap, meaning on .gov sites too, and impose it upon us.
Oh man as if we still live in those times
"Don't be evil. That's our job."
How you know this is a monopoly is that if you go on their documentation website half the video is how this rolls into Google Analytics.
This is using another product to reinforce the search and ads monopoly.
You can’t scrape content to build a better google or Gemini, you can’t make an OS to compete with Google or Apple, and you can’t make a Google Analytics competitor.
It’s plain anti competitive.