DOJ renews call for Google to sell Chrome, and Android could be next

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• Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This just sucks all around. Google is a monopolistic miasma of suck, and the current DoJ is a fascist cesspool of suck. No matter the outcome here, I expect the average person will be the loser, and the billionaires will get richer/more access to our data.

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  • Eldritch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There is one possible bright spot. Google could and should, completely open source all parts of Android. Bringing in all the nature handset manufacturers into a Consortium along with Google to guide and maintain the development. No longer having sole control over it. It’s Google did that they would still retain some control, and be able to stick it to the current administration, while the average user would now have a fully open source Android that would benefit them. But you’re right I don’t really see that happening.

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    • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Android is open source except for Google Play Services. Other major companies attempted to gain market share in Android but couldn’t because of the power of Google’s monopoly.

      I don’t see how a consortium fixes this.

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    • Telorand@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If only. I had the same thought, except it was somebody like GrapheneOS buying it and open-sourcing it, but it’s still too early to say where things will go.

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    • stsquad@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We’ll go from Google sucking up all our data to another entity sucking up all our data and selling it to other people. How much funding does it take to keep Chrome running?

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  • AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Very much doing the right thing for the wrong reasons here.

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  • beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Agree. Did Google not kiss Trump’s ass enough? Is that why they’re still going after them?

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• sloppychops@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Tesla Chrome and Android by X incoming.

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  • kibiz0r@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Xhrome and Stardroid, but yeah.

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• Ghosthacked@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Good. Fuck these bootlicking losers that just fell to they knees and started working on trump’s orange syphilis dick the moment he stole the election.

  I hope the cult breaks up all these spineless corps that put up no resistance against them.

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  • SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Remember when they all lined up to pay them bribes? I mean, “presidential fund”

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    • CouldntCareBear@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That was first bribes. What about second bribes?

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    • billiam0202@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Once you have paid the Danegeld, you never get rid of the Dane.

      And by “Danegeld” Kipling meant “bribe money” and by “Dane” he meant “the fat orange fascist fuck mob boss 77 million people were too goddamn stupid to realize should be in jail.”

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• axh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ok, coming up next: Thunderfoot (youtuber vocally attacking Musk before it was cool) and several other anti Trump and anti Musk youtubers banned on YouTube. Bernie Sanders and AoC disappear from the Google results… Case is mysteriously dismissed.

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  • Belgdore@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hopefully they ban enough popular people for their switch to a federated video sharing platform to have an impact on viewership.

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    • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And hopefully the cost burden of federated video hosting evaporates.

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• BetaDoggo_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They’ll sell each of them off to be run into the ground by some other billionaires. Both are heavily subsidized by Google’s ad business which is still somewhat unobtrusive up front. As much as Google’s services have degraded, it will be much worse with another company at the helm trying to squeeze as much value out of their investment as possible.

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  • magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Good I hope chrome does get fucking run into the ground.

    Maybe then chromium can have some actual independence and spread ts wings.

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• LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lmaooo Biden started this so they kissed trump’s ass and now trump is doing it too. Can’t even suck up to a fascist right nevermind make anything of any use to anyone. And did they really think all the years of passive progressiveness and the vomit inducing corpo memphis queer art would be forgiven by the cheeto man himself?

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• ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Someone else is going to get richer.

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