I doubt it. I’m sure they are monetizing things associated with it and they should, but Apple would get dragged if they were doing something shady, or maybe not, Google does this and only HN is annoyed (paid results, AMP, licensing google to FF etc. )
How many other businesses are getting screwed by this? Are you saying it’s okay because “oh other companies kinda do the same thing”... come on... direct domain search goes to another domain.... that’s bad, super bad. Are they censoring other searches by deciding what you should and shouldn’t see? I don’t want to be all “conspiracy theory” here but come on... this is a problem, just admit it.
