Honest question: Who is big enough to purchase Chrome but small enough that they won’t use it to create an information monopoly for their other products like Google has? Is Amazon + Chrome any better for consumers than Google + Chrome?
100% agree. My question is how is this going to screw over us Chrome enthusiasts? I’m sure it will somehow, the DOJ cares more about breaking up google than screwing up my browsing
Yeah, that's in the article. What Google can do is copy Microsoft's approach and drag it long enough for tech solutions (open API's, sales platforms, etc.) to catch up with the spirit of the lawsuit, without hitting the bottom line.
I have a feeling, and could be very wrong, this would be the least upsetting outcome for google! I mean, as long as they still have there services and peeps log into them, they still are going to have information to return to customers 10 times better than it left them!
Is there a specific reason they love it beyond their constant "Google bad", "Google woke" crying? Obviously might help some of their investments ie. Perplexity - I don't think much though
So you spin off Chrome as its own entity and force them to offer users the option of which search engine that wanna use. 90% or more would still choose to use Google search. The vast majority of search users don't even realize there are other search engines. They think Google is the internet.
It's an interesting situation, "fuck google / facebook / apple / amazon" has more bipartisan appeal than almost any other issue while also being popular amongst both voters and party leaders. Not a position you want to be in if you're google lol
Not sure what they think this will solve. What browser survives if Google and other search complaints can’t pay for default and can’t be owned by a company monetizing the data they are collecting?
Opera is based on Chromium and Brave is based on Firefox which is about to launch revenue initiatives of its own that fly dangerously close to the sun.
True but not at Chrome's scale and potential valuation. But I honestly haven't touched a browser outside of Chrome and Safari in years so not really familiar with what they are doing.
it makes money from advertising, search, and data collection. most Chrome alternatives are Chromium based, so they could, if they wanted, start charging licensing fees from Edge, Brave, et al. None of those revenue sources would disappear if it were sold by Google.
But who would buy Chrome? Instead they should force Google to CHANGE Chrome: restore features used by ad blockers, stop the "wouldn't you rather use Chrome" messages, remove features added to Chrome that only benefit Google's own DoubleClick ad tracking services
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