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

Which company would buy Chrome from Google? I just can’t think of a single tech company that could be an improvement over Google owning Chrome.

Amazon
Apple
Meta
Microsoft
Oracle

What about media companies? I don’t see consumers benefiting from this.

Comcast
Disney
Netflix
Viacom

What about telecom? I still don’t see consumers benefiting from this.

AT&T
T-Mobile
Verizon

What about foreign companies? Will they be even allowed to buy Chrome? I’m not sure.

LG
Philips
Samsung
Sony

The more I think about it, this won’t end well.

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jackyard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Chromium is already there and companies like Microsoft have their own forks so… Yeah I think there’s no point of buying Chrome.

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- rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  It’s the most popular web browser in the world. Direct access to the browser windows and browsing data of the majority of Internet users would be the point.
  
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rhadamanth_nemes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Sell it to IBM so they can end all support lol

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madis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Of those companies, Apple seems like the best option, though I am not fully sure why they’d want to, they already have a browser with a relative market share dominance.

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- gamer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  
  Apple seems like the best option due to their business goals (privacy).
  
  Lol. Lmao, even.
  
  Sorry for the flippant comment, but it’s so incredibly wrong that I need to highlight the ridiculousness. TBF to you, it’s a common misconception due to Apple marketing’s lies, and our regulatory agencies unable/unwilling to do anything about companies that lie like Apple does.
  
  Microsoft would be even worse.
  
  The best outcome IMO is to kill Chrome, Edge, AND Safari, and force users to scatter and find an alternative on their own. There will need to be some way to prevent all big tech from trying to compete here too (Facebook, Amazon, etc), as those are incentivized to monopolize exactly like Google did, and we shouldn’t have to wait another 2 decades for the government to do something about it.
  
  There will be some growing pains as people initially end up on shitty/scammy browsers, but eventually the market will do its thing and browser devs will compete for marketshare.
  
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- Smokeless7048@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Apples business isn’t privacy. Apples business is selling privacy.
  
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  - madis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    I don’t disagree, it’s more of a matter of least evil.
    
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- rothaine@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Is Microsoft even eligible? Wasn’t their anti-trust suit over IE basically about this same thing?
  
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rippersnapper@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Sell it to Canonical

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CCMan1701A@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Stellantis

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