I had this horrible dream in which the post delay was increased to 45 seconds again.
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Just for me
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Itâs because they stopped for a Google cup of coffee just before delivering your mail.
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Google isnât forcing you, no, but it can still be annoying to have it thrown at you, if I wanted to I could easily click the shopping tab on the search page.
Thatâs just my two cents. 
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Certainly itâs annoying. But that doesnât mean theyâre doing it wrong. Throwing up their inventory or links to buying it from them is a matter of marketing and convenience. If I had a business, Iâd try to market the crap out of it.
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Morning everyone! o/
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Morning Fractal o/
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Oh for sure I see why businesses would utalize it. I just donât like it as a consumer 
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Morning!! 
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Nor do I. Thats why I shop around.
It certainly isnât basis for a 2.7 BILLION law settlement.
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Google was superior to their competitors at the start and gained a market share that way. But at some point companies are just so big that they can do whatever they want with little repercussions, because theyâre so big that everyone has to rely on them to compete.
Walmart in the US is another scum company using their monopoly to game the US economy and Amazon is doing the same worldwide.
Business people rarely decide on a product based on how good it is. They go for the biggest provider, no matter how â â â â their product is.
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But you still would have to obey the law. Else every building and window would have to be placated with ads. You dont want to see it. I have seen it and its ugly thing.
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Indeed, same here!
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So, itâs the big bad businessâ fault that so many people use their service??
Seriously?
As a member of the human race and a consumer, I have a choice of what and where I buy my goods. NOBODY is forcing me to buy from Google, Walmart (yes, another scum company) and Amazon.
I do it out of convenience. Guess what, millions of other consumers do it as well. WE MAKE them scum companies by NOT shopping around.
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Anyway, the EU ruling press release made a damn good job at explaining why Google is being fined. Googleâs response to that is just the normal corporate lies because obviously they canât admit the truth.
Corporations literally exist only to protect and grow their bottom line, and are engineered to reflexively throw everything else under the busâemployees, the environment, the general public, reason itselfâto defend that goal.
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And in so doing drive out any and all competition until nothing else is left and there wonât ever be new competition cropping up because the big players will kill every attempt off before it even begins.
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While youâre certainly right, these companies definitely donât need the consumers to defend them either. 
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Then I guess we need to collectively stop being lazy and shopping around more. Nothing says âyou are a scum bag companyâ better than NOT buying from Google, Walmart and Amazon.
Personally, I LOVE shopping around in little mom and pop shops. I support local small business whenever and wherever I can.
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That makes you the exception to the rule. Most people donât and they also donât or canât think far enough why thatâs going to end in disaster down the road.
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People will stay lazy. Google will help them. 
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