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DuckDuckGo, Mozilla, Proton and other companies that advertise
themselves as pro-privacy expressed support for a bill to ban
self-preferencing by Big Tech platforms like Google and
Amazon.com.
A U.S. congressional leader on antitrust, Senator Amy Klobuchar,
has spent much of the summer urging the Senate to pass the bill
to no avail. Klobuchar, a lead sponsor along with Republican
Chuck Grassley, has said she has the 60 votes needed for passage
but prospects of it becoming law this year appear to be dimming.
In a letter to Senate and House leadership, the companies said
that the big tech firms have used their dominance to steer
consumers away from services that offer more privacy
protections.
"While more and more Americans are embracing privacy-first
technologies, some dominant firms still use their gatekeeper
power to limit competition and restrict user choice," they wrote
in the letter.
(Reporting by Diane Bartz; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)
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