Google is ‘crooked’ and a bully, CEO of Fortnite-maker Epic Games testifies in Play Store trial::Epic alleges that Google has been engaged in illegal price-gouging by collecting commissions ranging from 15% to 30% on in-app digital transactions.

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“Don’t be evil.”

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Unlike on iOS, nobody forces them to use Google Play to distribute their app. Just don’t use it. On iOS that’s not an option, but here what’s the problem?

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The problem is that they crushed the competition with a fairly good free product for years. Setting all alternatives back, then they started prioritizing revenue, slowly, over time. Now Google free to use products are part of our routine, part of our lives, and the alternatives are either paid, poorly developed or have a low user base. Do you have an alternative to YouTube that has the same amount of content? It was the same issue when we left Teddit, but at a much lower scale and that was still painful (and it still is)

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How did they crush f-droid? What did they do to set alternative app stores on Android back? We aren’t talking about YouTube here, your entire comment is just making shit up about Android stores because you are bad about other parts of Google.

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And that has to do with being able to sideload how, exactly?

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I believe they removed this from their company policy a couple of years ago.

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It is still in their code of conduct.

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Google Removes ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Clause From Its Code of Conduct - Gizmodo https://gizmodo.com/google-removes-nearly-all-mentions-of-dont-be-evil-from-1826153393

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Yes they did. I wonder why…

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