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DOJ: Google must sell Chrome, Android could be next (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 46 points 2 years ago (16 children)

Google is awful, but any other company that could afford to buy and run Chrome would be worse.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Heaven forbid it becomes its own company/a non profit.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Non profit under this US administration who's mantra is what rules? Seems highly optimistic. I see it being more likely that Musk takes the opportunity to try and get the most popular browser and phone OS that is used world wide.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    100% guaranteed Musk is going to try and wrangle a controlling share of Android. Probably Chrome too but definitely Android. He desperately wants to be in your pockets snooping on your text messages and harvesting your contact data.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    Any alternative is better than letting monopolies stand.

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  • [–] -5 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Sounds a lot like, "Biden & Harris support genocide, so let's vote for Trump."

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  • [+] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    There is really only three browsers webkit (safari/apple), blink (chrome/Google) , and gecko (firefox/Mozilla) . Pretty much everything is running on one of those three and if Google has to seel chrome, I'm not sure if that would help the landscape. Building/maintinaing browsers is really hard and expensive, most likely you'd just have another big tech company step in making things worse.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_browser_engines

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    We can't continue selectively enforcing our laws against monopolies. (This is just dark humor. Citizens United is for the express purpose of ensuring that any anti-monopoly law enforcement we get is selective and political, for the rest of however long the US has left.)

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