The Department of Justice is going to ask a judge to force Google into selling off its Chrome browser
They want to break up a search engine monopoly
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They want to break up a search engine monopoly
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They aren’t actively blocking other browsers or search engines from emerging, which would render them as a monopoly.
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When I said multiple alternatives I meant WebKit, Gecko etc.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/doj-will-push-google-to-sell-off-chrome-to-break-search-monopoly
Would rather they distance their cloud services
there is bing
duckduckgo
yahoo
brave
safari
firefox
duckduckgo and yahoo use bings index
so that leaves google, bing, and brave as essentially the only independent modern search engines....
not to mention google pays BILLIONS for it to be the default search in browsers like firefox & safari
Now it's Brave, Bing, and New company.
Still three search engines. Why should Google be punished for doing a good job with their business?
google didn’t become so widely adopted because it was a legitimately good product, it’s because they paid BILLIONS to browser developers & manufacturers like samsung to be given preferential treatment
that being said, i think googles monopoly in other areas like browsing (& ESPECIALLY android) are far more alarming
it just needs to be done the right way and given its own independent non-profit foundation (like linux).
Chromium is only so good because Google dedicates resources to it. One good thing google does.
funded by google, facebook, intel, microsoft, oracle, huawei, sony, ibm, samsung, toshiba, adobe, tencent, etc...
i don't see any reason a structure like this wouldn't also work for a project like chromium. its in everyone's best interest to have a standard free & open browsing engine, just as it is for the kernel.
Bring it on!!
Mad weird
Monopolies/functional monopolies like google get away with so many things, maybe (just maybe) this will encourage them to stop constantly stealing user data.