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Chrome is fine. Letting an advertising company own it is not.
by timewizard 1y ago
Chrome is fine.
Letting an advertising company own it is not.
- duxup 1y agoI feel like that's like saying "it's fine, except for the bad part that you can't avoid" ;)
- turtletontine 1y agoThe future of Google as Chrome’s owner is genuinely in question now due to Google’s antitrust losses, in case you weren’t aware. There’s a few different cases, one recent one Google has lost and is now in the “remedy” phase. Meaning the court has officially decided Google did bad, and is now considering what to make Google do about it. And splitting up Google into separate Chrome, search, etc companies is completely on the table. Some reading: https://www.theverge.com/23869483/us-v-google-search-antitrust-case-updates https://www.theverge.com/23869483/us-v-google-search-antitru... https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/google-found-guilty-of-monopolization https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/google-found-guilty-of-mo...
- duxup 1y agoI'm aware, but it doesn't change day to day choices for now. I'm also completely at a loss to imagine how chrome becomes someone else's play thing and is somehow less prone to serving advertisers.
- timewizard 1y agoThe DOJ could literally order their separation. So there's no part of this that's "unavoidable." Ask Ma Bell.