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The relief for that would be for the customer to talk to everyone and tell them how bad the vendor is, and go to another vendor who offers the same service.

In this case, Google is effectively a monopoly/2Big2Fail in advertising. So that remedy is not available or is impractical.

So the issue is not necessarily the behaviors (while reprehensible) but the size of the company.




Yeah the real issue is the choice. If there were 5 or 10 reasonable alternatives, this kind of thing wouldn't bother me at all. But if the options are "obey Google or fail", suddenly it's a big problem.




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