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I really hope FTC breaks android and chrome away from google.
by mostlyRice 2y ago
I really hope FTC breaks android and chrome away from google.
- ivanmontillam 2y agoI am rooting for that too. It's becoming unbearable, and I'm just not an Apple guy.
- AJ007 2y agoBetween the convoluted EU rules and whatever the multiple US antitrust cases outcomes are, it could be a lot simpler: Chrome, Android, Youtube, and Gmail all must be divested. The ad & search business don't really appear separable, but everything else certainly is.
- imglorp 2y agoHow? Projects like Chrome are adj delivery and surveillance platforms wholly funded by the ad business for the benefit of the ad busines. What would a spinoff look like?
- readams 2y agoChrome exists to counter the previous platform browser monopoly from Microsoft, which was holding back the web from being a viable application platform. It was never been about surveillance and doesn't do a very good job of surveillance if that were the goal.
- NoGravitas 2y agoChrome was created to counter the previous platform browser monopoly from Microsoft. Once that was achieved, it pivoted. First to making sure Google has a controlling stake in setting web standards, and then to surveillance. Surveillance features: FLoC, Manifest v3, Web Attestation. The surveillance features have often flopped or been beaten back, but they keep being introduced.
- Ekaros 2y agoSearch and ad is one to be split too. I see no reason why search cannot operate just like every other website. Just add billion tracking cookies and do the usual.
- rustcleaner 2y agoAlso break iOS and Store from Apple.