This seems like a sensible consumer protection to not let the ad company control the biggest web browser. I won't hold my breath, but I'm glad they are trying something.
AWS should also be split from Amazon.
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Why force one company to sell off their browser? Shouldn't MS have to sell Edge and Apple sell Safari?
I think this is something even Elon Musk could get behind.
Sell off? So who will buy
Google: Sure, we'll sell it to anyone who pays off our Russian Govt fine.
What Lemmy client do you use?
I am asking because it caught my attention that you didn't upvote your own comment.
Also, funny reference 😂
The Lemmy web client, same as Reddit, allows you to de-upvote your posts.
It feels weird to upvote your own post anyway and I don't do so unless I am asking for help and want it seen more, urgently.
That is so odd, if you dont think what you are saying is relevant or necessary why say it?
Your conscientiousness will be lost in a sea of others self importance, at least level the playing field and support yourself.
if you dont think what you are saying is relevant or necessary why say it?
If I worried about necessity, I would probably not have a Lemmy account.
level the playing field
I'm not playing dependent upon others, just upon my own ideals.
I feel like an upvote needs to mean something. In my case, it means, I need more people to see it, for me.
In most cases, the feeling behind my posts/comments are: If someone sees it, good, have fun.
It will never happen. But it would be a good thing for the openness of the web. More Firefox, less Chrome.
I heard the same for Android and I was pretty supportive of the sentiment until I listened to the Android Faithful podcast episode discussing it...
If Google doesn't develop Android, nobody will. Whoever buys Android, we don't know if they will maintain the AOSP. Android has been an equal parts rollercoaster of good and bad ideas thanks to Google, but it has had someone do that...
Maybe LineageOS could take over, but that's just insane wishful thinking.
Nokia, Siemens, Oracle, Linux Foundation, Tesla, IBM, OpenAI...there a hundreds of companies wealthy enough in that space that would not pose a consumer protection issue.
They are going to ask a judge like they have no fucking balls.
It's called "Distribution of Power".
We should be thankful it's still here.
Distribution of power into corporate hands. Oh, im willing to bet it is here to stay.
If this happens, I'd be interested in seeing how this effects ChromeOS. I don't use it but my mom does.
Also, if you're confused as to why ChromeOS would be effected, while it's based on Gentoo Linux, ChromeOS uses a modified version of Chrome as it's Desktop Environment.
Yes I would like to know what that means for ChromeOS and Chromebooks. If the new "Chrome" company got ChromeOS also that would be huge. But if that is not a requirement Google could just put another Chromium browser in ChromeOS. They could also continue to sell Chromebooks but based on a ChromiumOS fork.
Its based on debian now :(
Depending on what version
According to Wikipedia, it's still based on Gentoo, it just uses Debian for running Linux applications in Crostini.
Oh go figure, my bad :P
Chrome isn't even developed by anyone but Google.
Oh, the DOJ is ran by idiots, my bad.
What? The fact it's owned & developed by Google is the whole point
This is how the DOJ is planning to approach dismantling Google's illegal monopoly, by breaking chrome - the world's most used browser - away from them
Google will bribe trump and this'll be undone immediately
Google is such a good company, one the best. Everybody says it. I was just talking to John Google the other day, and he tells me, no really he did, he tells me we're going to do amazing things together. Oogles of googles. That's what we'll sell. Everybody will know about google by this time next year. It's true.
Username checks out
You forgot the unrelated rant in the middle about toasters being too dark these days or some shit.
And a series of words that sounds kinda like a complex sentence when you listen to it, but actually means nothing whatsoever
And he says to me... a very smart guy, Mark, he's really doing... he's really got to show... when he does things he really does them, you know, like he really does, very impressive, very modern
He also didn't say his name three times in 10 seconds. Then sort of fade off and vaguely look off into the distance.
They said to me Donald, Donald, they said Donald, they do amazing things, real bigly things, my father, my father, said to me Donald, they do big things Google land. Really good things.......... Yeah.......... Big things...........................
God damnit.
That would be the logical thing according to common sense and probably according to pichai a few weeks ago, but trump just nominated an anti big tech and musk friend to the FCC. musk is behind almost everybody in ai and autonomous cars so he'll definitely push to hamper all competitors.
Sure, we don't know how far would they go or how long will musk keep having white house influence and I personally think breaking up google is now off the table, but I don't think they will get off the hook too easily.
So surely a very big bribe.
Lit. It's a good ask although it's not clear what separation means here. Not going to hold my breath, the big corpos seem to usually win these kind of games.
Chrome is now owned by a separate conpany with the same major stock holders.
It's like they're a company pretending to be another company, disguised as another company. Tropic Thunder all the way down.
Chrome is now owned by a company, owned by a company, owned by another company, that is owned by Google.
And even in the case where there is actual separation, and competition, it will only be temporary!
If they split Google, MS, Apple, Meta and Amazon all simultaneously, with some condition for the splinters to not merge back, and that contaminating the results of their allowed mergers, there may be good outcomes.
Or there may not. It's about people, not laws, after all.
Why doesn’t this have sprint?
LoL they won't, even if they buy it for 1 trillion dollar
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