DOJ says Google must sell Chrome to crack open its search monopoly

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• 52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The Reuters article suggests prohibiting payments to Apple so that Chrome users on their hardware default to Google search. What about default settings to Firefox? Similar agreements finance a large portion of Mozilla’s revenue.

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• PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Big doubt anything actually happens.

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• IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Step 1: Buy Chome

  Step 2: End development

  Step 3: ???

  Step 4: Profit? Non-Profit Firefox?

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• Tetsuo@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is the DOJ the only working system in the US now?

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• rockSlayer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They should force it to become a worker cooperative. It’s the only solution that doesn’t allow for corruption

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• 200ok@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Alphabet’s Chief Legal Officer Kent Walker, says the DOJ is pushing “a radical interventionist agenda that would harm Americans and America’s global technology leadership.”

  I’m honestly curious how this would “harm Americans”.

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  • ladicius@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That statement is technically true.

    The billionaire owners are Americans.

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  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Google pretending they have any other nationality other then “the global internet” is cute in a disgusting way.

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• 200ok@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If they’re allowed to choose who they sell it to this won’t change anything

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  • otter@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think they should sell it to me.

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    • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      4 $ Final Offer

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• BroBot9000@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  ABOUT FUCKING TIME!

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• sorghum@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sounds like they are preparing for this by killing off ChromeOS

  androidauthority.com/chrome-os-becoming-android-3…

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