Comment on Justice Department asks judge to order Google the "immediate" sale of Chrome

TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• biofaust@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I must say that, as a European using a Firefox fork for my daily browsing while waiting for Ladybird, I don’t see that outcome as completely negative: Google, somehow, in America has kept a completely unjustified good vibes feeling surrounding itself. while Thiel is much more evil in the public eye.

  If Chrome is associated with him in anyway it can become a more lucid image of itself.

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  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I really don’t think this is true. It might push some politically engaged users to Firefox, but unlike Musk, most people don’t know who Thiel is, and as long as he keeps it that way, nobody will care.

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    • biofaust@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s when we come onto the scene.

      I am continuously “translating” news and opinions from here on LinkedIn. Already got banned from a professional Slack that contains most people in my industry for saying in a private conversation that I like watermelon.

      Not gonna stop. People are not politically inclined because we kept our knowledge to ourselves for too long.

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    • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      FF depends on google ad money, thats why FF is currently enshittifying right now.

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  • green@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Acceleration"ism" does not work.

    If the USA has not taught you this, after this reckless takeover, nothing will save you.

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  • aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ladybird can’t come fast enough.

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  • Fuhgeddaboutit@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • biofaust@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I am not sure about that within US Law, but given what it usually sums up to, yes, it is a risk, which would make things even faster, possibly.

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  • lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Same workflow/expectation state. ⏳

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• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Please, do it! That’s going to eviscerate Chrome’s userbase and push these Chromium browsers to fork so fast it’ll make his head spin.

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  • pivot_root@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You’re putting way too much faith in the typical consumer. Enshittifying Chrome even more would piss its users off, but inertia and its market dominance would keep most of them continuing to use it while complaining about how bad it is.

    Remember: It took 8 years for Chrome to drag Internet Explorer to the point where less than 10% of people actually used it. And that’s with Firefox already being a competitor to it for years.

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    • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Google would still own android and may not be inclined to keep chrome as the default. That is a significant portion of the browser’s user base.

      With default search engine agreements being threatened, it may shake out where Google and Firefox agreed to make Firefox the default android browser in exchange for keeping Google their default search engine.

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