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50% a good product, 50% spending billions in ads, bundling deals and nagging people to install chrome when visiting Google properties.



I swear I had to make sure to download the Flash installer without the Chrome bundle for a number of years...


I just use chrome as my primary Flash program now, as it seems to bundle it's own version regardless of what I have installed.


I have a feeling that behavior played a (small?) role when the EU decided to fine Google for abusing their market position to pressure themselves into the shopping comparison market - they saw what happened the last time Google did that.




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