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[–] [email protected] 167 points 11 months ago (2 children)

So Alphabet:

  • is the developer the most used browser (chrome) and its open source skeleton (chromium) on which most of all of the other browsers are based on (edge, brave etc)

  • has the most used video platform online, with no close second (unless you count porn, but i'd still argue its not close)

  • has the biggest share of devices relying on its platform worldwide (android)

  • has the most used search engine worldwide.

Alphabet has to be split up. Alphabet alone is deciding what shape internet will take in the future.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

is the developer the most used browser (chrome) and its open source skeleton (chromium) on which most of all of the other browsers are based on (edge, brave etc)

Which was branched from Apple’s open Webkit base, but let’s all also forget about that.

They take the IP of others, spin it a bit and then block everyone. Burn them down.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Acting like Apple didn't do the same thing with khtml to make WebKit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The inevitable fate of any useful software that's not GPL.

When will people learn???

Edit: Ironically, KHTML was originally LGPL. So modifications to KHTML were required to be open source by the license, but Chrome itself isn't required to be open source (at least as far as I understand it, I am not an expert here). Nevertheless, if it were stronger GPL, then it probably wouldn't have been impossible to write features like DRM in chrome. So I would have been a bit of an idiot to say that KHTML isn't GPL (because LGPL is a weaker version of GPL), but in effect, the outcome is the same - all because of that big fat L at the beginning.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They didn’t do anything of the sort. We don’t need to endlessly recite the history of everything developed. If you want to call attention to it go right ahead but they didn’t give Apple a pass.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

All of those are meaningless peanuts versus

  • Owns the biggest (borderline only) web ad service in the world
[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My long bet: The EU will force Google Search + Ads, to separate from Youtube within a decade.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

God bless the EU. Actually protecting its consumers