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Google reacts angrily to report it will have to sell Chrome
- lofaszvanitt 2y agoKick them back into the stone age.
- tonetheman 2y ago[dead]
- Terr_ 2y agoI'm sure I'm not alone seeing parallels with Microsoft's monopolistic moves with Internet Explorer a quarter-century ago. I wonder if there's an age-related split in public opinion that matches those events.
- TheBruceHimself 2y agoI find you respond the most negatively to accusations and critisims you deep-down know to be true...
- smgit 2y agoThe only regulation Adtech companies need is a cap on how many Ads they can show to a single person in a day. Right now its infinity. All this other stuff won't make any diff cause its all about how much Attention they are allowed to capture, steal, buy, sell and waste.
- ImJamal 2y agoHow would they know who a single person is? You could use multiple computers without being signed into Google on multiple networks.
- shiroiushi 2y agoInstead of a single person, make it a single sign-in. A "single person" really is too much to expect. But a single sign-in is not.
- mozman 2y agoI haven’t seen an ad in years through careful ad blocking Extensions API needs more granular controls and to remain functional
- jfengel 2y agoIs it the number of ads that's really the problem? The limit right now is "how much users will put up with". I think of the targeting as the key problem. Not even necessarily the results of the targeted ads, but the process that they have to go through to do the targeting. They gather up a lot of your personal habits, and there's a ton of real evil that can be done with that. The ads are merely a large nuisance, but the loss of privacy is potentially devastating. If so, limiting the ad count won't help.
- Terr_ 2y agoThe raw number of ads is not the problem compared to: 1. Placement and deliberate confusion 2. No liability for viruses or scams 3. Creepy spying/tracking
- cozzyd 2y agoTo whom? Oracle? Adobe? Ticketmaster?
- yumraj 2y agoMozilla
- nicbou 2y agoThe Onion
- cozzyd 2y agoThis is what the world needs
- takemetoearth 2y agoBoth logos are already basically circles!
- Cumpiler69 2y agoTo someone less evil, like Lex Luthor for example.
- shiroiushi 2y agoThis is great news: the government can force Google to sell Chrome to Microsoft, and then we can go back to 20 years ago when everyone was basically forced to use IE6. Or they can force them to sell to Apple, and everyone will be forced to use Macs and iPhones. And, of course, the government won't have a problem with those companies having a browser monopoly and tying it to their other HW/SW.
- loktarogar 2y agoAre those the only options?
- dmalik 2y agoElon likes to buy things.
- shiroiushi 2y agoI suppose this is also a possibility, but I think it's highly unlikely. He already has his hands full with Xitter and DoGE, and he had trouble getting enough money together for his Twitter acquisition, so I'm not sure how he'd have enough money to also buy Chrome. And unlike Twitter, there's no clear way to make any money from Chrome unless it's tied to an advertising empire, which Xitter is not; after all, it's a company so unpopular with advertisers (he told them to go fuck themselves remember) that the CEO wants to the government to prosecute companies for not advertising with them.
- diffeomorphism 2y agoWell, there is also Facebook or Amazon. But pretty much yes. Chrome is a very large, very expensive product to develop with very unclear profit perspective once disassociated from Google.
- tdeck 2y agoMaybe ByteDance can buy it!
- 0x073 2y ago
- galkk 2y agoI have opinion that cloudflare might be a good fit for chrome. If they want it, obviously.
- viraptor 2y agoYeah, I'd hate to see that. I have a feeling it would start drifting towards "use Chrome with our kernel module, or we'll block you from half the internet".
- coremoff 2y agoSomething needs to be done; Google's mission is at odds to good browser development, and having an effective monopoly with the world using a single browser is not good for users even without the advertising conflict of interest.
- tim333 2y ago>effective monopoly with the world using a single browser I've got at least five browsers on the laptop - chrome, firefox, safari, orion and edge. I alternate between firefox and chrome depending on which works best for that I'm doing. Not sure how that's a monopoly? I use chrome most because it works best. Choosing the best amongst competing options seems kind of the opposite to a monopoly. The only place I feel monopolistic behaviour is on the phone where apple try to push me to use safari rather than chrome.
- jfengel 2y agoWho would be able to buy it in a way that did align with good browser development? People really like getting their web browser for free. If they're not paying for it with money, the developers will have to recoup costs some other way. In general, that's not going to be something that benefits users. I suppose they could set up a not-for-profit that takes donations. I think that's how Mozilla works, but I don't think it's working very well. I'd love for there to be some other brilliant idea. But thus far, we've been stuck on "money, advertising, or your data" as the only ways to make revenue.
- bytemy 2y agoLMAO Google formed to break the m$/apple monopoly over the ecosystem and now theyre jealous of google successes. Next
- bytemy007 2y agoLMAO Google formed to break the m$/apple monopoly over the ecosystem and now theyre jealous of google successes. Next