[nickv]

Notwithstanding modern time, Google is notably absent in this article because it provides a good counter to it.

[esafak]

And Amazon didn't break the rules any more than its maligned and bigger competitor, Walmart. Am I wrong? I think they grew by running a tight ship.

[disambiguation]

Amazon is the poster child for cheat to win. They grew fat by circumventing state sales tax for many years.

"Amazon.com originally collected sales tax only from five states as of 2011, but as of April 2017 collects sales taxes from customers in all 45 states that have a state sales tax"

[throwawaysleep]

Amazon breaks "Deploying capital as a weapon."

Basically their entire shopping ecosystem didn't make money for years and years and years.

[siliconc0w]

Google is actually a pretty good example.

They provided a lot of value initially but now any remotely commercial query has only sponsored links above the fold. If you want to sell anything on the internet, you're probably paying them or facebook a hefty vig. They also used their position in search to push their other products, they make you pay to buy keywords for your own trademarks, they aggressively track you in order to build an advertising profile, etc, etc.

Enshittification is well documented in tech. There is some initial value or innovation and then it always turns into gatekeeping and value extraction.

[throwawaysleep]

Do they?

I thought they break "misusing user trust". Google is the ultimate surveillance capitalism engine.

They also regularly get in trouble for anti trust.