Consequently, because of pre-installing the YouTube app by default on Android-powered smartphones, Google is giving an unfair advantage to YouTube over other competitors.
“This also has damaged and continues to damage Rumble by further self-preferencing YouTube over Rumble (and other platforms, which harms competition in addition to Rumble),” the company added. “Because much of the online searching for videos is done on smartphones, this further ensures that Google’s YouTube platform receives unfair preferential treatment. Google thus wrongfully acquired and maintains a monopoly over the market for online video-sharing platforms.”
Furthermore, the video-sharing platform accused Google of forcing the company to share its videos on YouTube in order to protect itself from bankruptcy.
Rumble claimed that Google directed revenue on 9.3 billion views to YouTube because of its unfair algorithms and “illegal tying arrangement;”
“Huge amount of revenue on 9.3 billion views that Google wrongfully directed to YouTube with its unfair YouTube-preferencing algorithms”
