Alright, hear me out: we split up Alphabet. Ads and search can be one company, since those two are always going to be related, while Chrome, Android, and the hardware division become the other company. This should help reduce Google’s current incentive for privacy invasion.
Google has illegal advertising monopoly, judge rules
Submitted 4 weeks ago by RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3674nl7g74o
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IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
SamB@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
No. You have got to split search and ads. Otherwise the web search is going to disappear completely and replaced by social media and ai. It’s for Google s own good.
Jyek@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Ad supported search is the only way people will continue to use the internet. I feel the only real reason the internet is so widely used is because of the accuracy and accessibility provided by search engines and without them, the web as it currently exists will die and become small factions of like-minded individuals on forums. Some people like that idea but I’ll tell you, as someone who lived through the internet in that era, there was some pretty fucked up shit that came out of those spaces.
We need global agora and we need ways to stay connected on unified platforms and we need to maintain history and knowledge. The Internet is our species’s latest evolution. It allows us to combine our collective thoughts and knowledge for better or for worse. Destroying the primary way to navigate the Internet is an awful idea even though the leader of that industry is Google.
farcaller@fstab.sh 3 weeks ago
What’s going to pay for the search part, then?
umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
its for our good, honestly. fuck google.
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
Unless is a five way split, it won’t really change much.
aleq@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
What? Having Chrome become Chromium and Android being degooglified would be pretty huge?
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
“Normal man” gets a new phone accepts 6 agreements from 6 split companies
Same result, different road.
sidelove@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I would honestly want the hardware division split, too. There’s still an impetus to turn Android into a walled garden there, too.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
you shouldn’t allow a web browser and an operating system be in one company
turnip@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Browsers should be open standards, like TCP/IP.
Pirata@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Cool. Is anything gonna happen? No? Then who cares. Just smoke and mirrors.
Auzy@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
And yet, as per normal, Apple is innocent… apparently
ripcord@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Wait, Apple has an illegal advertising monopoly too…?
sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 3 weeks ago
Apple doesn’t really have an advertising business. You can criticize them for many things, but it’s hard to fault them for a market they don’t operate in.
Auzy@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
They DO though. They sell the default search engine to Google for billions knowing they’re profiting from the ads indirectly…
I was implying the fact that Apple doesn’t need to though, because they monopolise things via the app store, and with other foul play (like requiring additional intervention if you want to run an app from outside the store on Mac). They have full control over monitoring what apps and what kind of apps are popular, so they can target them with their own competitors.
They also have some fairly hefty requirements from developers, and even try to get a cut of subscription fees
In the case of Pebble as an example, they delayed the pebble app, launched their own watch at the same time, and because they fucked Pebble over, they never stood a chance.
Just to further things, Republicans have a clear bias. When the head of google was in congress, they weren’t really asking questions, but they were incorrectly stating things like Google was tracking their phone anywhere it moves
And yet, Apple seems to dodge every single case. They don’t even allow IOS to run on other platforms.
sinceasdf@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They most certainly do
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Well, now they have and they want to ramp it up.
oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
No shit
coolmojo@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
This was the Gogle’s plan along the way. Have a look at the Selfish Ledger video if you haven’t seen it already (or not recently)
FatTony@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is why we have anti-trust laws. Because we are supposed to break up trusts long before get anywhere near becoming a monopoly. The time to break up Google/Alphabet and every company like them was well over a decade ago.
thisphuckinguy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I never thought I’d ever despise Google but now I do…
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Really?
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
What, why would you not despise them?
Google is like MS but with modern company culture and extra shady.
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Good! Now rip them apart limb from limb.