So who would set the price in this? If Google just sets something moderately absurd then what?
DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome
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#22"make" Mozilla buy it, give em a heaping grant from the Library of Congress to keep the open web open, and be the engine behind every browser keeping things fair... sounds good to me!
Are they being forced to sell Chromium? How would that work?
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#23So I understand trying to break up monopolistic companies to provide better competition in the market which is generally better for the consumer as a whole. This strategy of saying Chrome should be sold off seems strange to me because unlike other monopolies Google's monopoly with Chrome is fundamentally different. Since Chrome at its core is the open source chromium browser engine the ability for your competition to…
Isn’t Google refusing to make changes that boost online privacy because it’ll tank their ad revenue?
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#25That really does not come as a surprise and that was totally expected. [0] As soon as Chrome started to become more of a platform (for their extension API) with many other companies using it in their own browsers, it tells you why they had >90% of the search market for years. This is what the folks at Google have all feared and why they started to run away from the company, spurring up 'Google' competitors (including…
Who would buy Chrome and why would they buy it? And why would they be trusted to not do something nefarious?
I’m guessing Meta would like to buy it. Probably for nefarious data sucking reasons tho
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#26Who would possibly buy Chrome? Letting any of the large tech companies purchase it (the only possible buyers) would just give someone else monopolistic power. Chrome can’t exist as a standalone business without being even more consumer hostile.
In the most chaotic alternate reality possible: Mozilla
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#27Maybe one of the big spyware players will buy chrome
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#28Chrome??? Dude. THAT plus: * Android * Search * Advertising * YouTube Smash it into tiny pieces. Then the same for Apple and Facebook. We've been stalled for technological progress for 15+ years. Tear down the giants holding us back.
Apple will never be broken. Most of these folks use Apple and see it as the good guy versus Google, plus it would impact their daily lives.
Also once they see the mess separating Google would do, theyd leave apple in tact
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#29Weird that this is so doom and gloom, the world's most popular browser decoupled from the ad machine. What's not to love? People champion Firefox and Brave constantly and they're independent browsers.
Re: DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome
#30So who would set the price in this? If Google just sets something moderately absurd then what?
That’s what they mean by “force” - if this does happen, the government will have a hand in the behind-closed-door negotiations with potential buyers.
Company forced to sell cannot simply set an absurd price to evade regulators, as that would be plainly acting in bad faith