Germany's Ecosia, a nonprofit search engine, said on Thursday it has submitted a proposal to assume a 10-year stewardship of Google Chrome

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• FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That sounds clever. With a stewardship, a company without the obscene wealth that Google has could actually adopt a project normally out of their reach and influence it for good.

  I wish the article went into more detail though.

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  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This helps for context: techcrunch.com/…/ecosia-has-offered-to-take-stewa…

    TLDR; If the lawsuit goes bad, and Google is forced to sell Chrome, it’s a way for them to retain ownership while working with an existing partner to overcome the monopoly ruling.

    Still a win win in my book.

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    • FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thanks. Yeah I think if a company like Ecosia is involved it could be win-win. But if it’s another purely capitalist outfit then it’ll probably be business as usual.

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• 5A7A@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No matter how good the initial intentions, I feel like web browser development and web search under control of one single company is just too much concentration of power over the access to information to be a good thing.

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• CassiniWarden@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As long as it’s not Denethor, the Steward of Gondor, it should fine.

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  • ByteJunk@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Are you sure? I thought Denethor was one of the first Scottish High Stewards.

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    • swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Just don’t let him eat any tomatoes

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    • MBech@feddit.dk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But do we really want someone constantly high for this?

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• DrDystopia@lemy.lol ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m looking forward to the Ecosia AI being implemented in Google Chrome so I can continue to boycott both companies.

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  • thisisnotausername@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What are your resons to boycott ecosia?

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    • DrDystopia@lemy.lol ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t accept AI implementation as a green product, and when the “green AI” they advertise is a special, low complexity opt-IN model I feel like I’m being bamboozled on two separate levels.

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  • PunkiBas@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve been using them lately and haven’t seen any AI in their searches, what are you referring to?

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    • DrDystopia@lemy.lol ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      www.ecosia.org/chat

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• fluxion@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That seems like such an odd offer. What does “stewardship” even entail?

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  • MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Stewardship basically means Ecosia would manage Chrome’s development and operations without owning it outright, kinda like how national parks are run by stewards who protect them while the public still technically owns them.

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  • Blueberrydreamer@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Seems like it allows a non profit to assume control of a company without having to pay out funds to actually purchase it. They apparently have to reinvest all profits back into the company rather than directly benefiting from it. Though the article does mention under the proposal, some unspecified portion of Chrome profits would go toward ‘climate action’, so there’s some vague positive out of it.

    Seems like it would be pretty great honestly, so I can’t imagine it’ll be accepted.

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    • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I suppose “proposal” here means proposal to some government, not to Google, and then the question is whether it’s going to be like Russia’s “Vkusno i Tochka” in place of McDonalds. Because, ahem, maintaining Chrome is not that easy.

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• Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We can’t just get an open standard because corpos will attack it or try to take ownership.

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