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I’m still scratching my head how chrome and android divestment will help search business competition.
by nashashmi 1y ago
I’m still scratching my head how chrome and android divestment will help search business competition.
- Coffeewine 1y agoPresumably other search companies will be on a more even footing with google with regards to what they know about you to sell to advertisers if google doesn't also have your complete search history and a complete history of everything you do on your phone.
- danans 1y agoInstead of the blunt hammer of disinvestment of brands, the government should be putting limits on Big Tech's ability to lock consumers and business into their platforms, whether via exclusive search deals, preventing alternative app stores, or hardware-tied communication networks. Those practices are ultimately what harms consumer choice. This decision only seems to address the first of those. It seems that Big Tech's ingratiation of itself to the current administration using money and lent "credibility" is yielding their desired slaps on the wrists when a spanking was justified by the harm they have done to consumers.
- EasyMark 1y agoChrome is the most popular browser, if you disconnect that then you cut off google's guaranteed control of the default search engine. That's just a hunch though. Same with Android which is the most popular mobile OS in the world.
- bitpush 1y agoLots of people use Google through non-Chrome browsers. For instance, on iOS the dominant browser is Safari. What makes you think an independent "chrome" browser wont put Google Search as the default search engine?
- blasphemers 1y agoMicrosoft has the most used operating system in the world with a default browser that defaults search to Bing. How is that working out? Being a default doesn't matter when the other options are better and easy to switch to.
- sixothree 1y ago> Microsoft has the most used operating system in the world Are you sure about that? Think again.