2 messages later that seems to be contradicted?

> It's not so much forcing people to Chrome/chromium for specific features

I might've misread.

> but trying to increase market share through more subtle means, like paying to have their search engine featured

This isn't Chromium, the open source basis of many web browsers. Now you're talking about Google the company.

> Is Linux also a monopoly?

Monopolies in the sense worth discussing are highly popular things that are held in place by things other than competition. If anything, Google props up Chrome's competitors to reduce this.

Seriously? That's our standard of what is a "monpoply"?

Words have no meaning anymore.

You can choose to use something different. The device you bought probably came with an alternative! Otherwise, the device next to it on the shelf on the store where you bought it likely would have had an alternative browser, because most devices on the store shelves outside of some hypothetical physical Google store don't come with Chrome.