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		astrange on July 26, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why is it so hard to give Google money? Google ads are a natural monopoly, like power lines. What are you going to do, go to 1/3 of its ad customers and tell them they're switching to Southwestern Google while another 1/3 have to switch to Pacific Google?

parasubvert on July 27, 2022 [–]

This assumes Google search - the main reason they have a business - will remain popular. That’s a very big assumption.

Google’s monopoly isn’t “natural”. It’s temporary.

astrange on July 27, 2022 | [–]

I was thinking of AdSense.

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