Google says government proposals would "harm America’s consumers."

Says the company that couldn't stand by the core value "don't be evil".

Xoogle and Xdroid run by doge.

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

Sell it to who?

Do Elon now. He owns way too much shit and always tries for a monopoly. Start by nationalizing star link.

So…. What are the odds on fElon ending up owning some of this shit?

Good. Now do Amazon.

Looks like Google didn't bend the knee enough.

If they really wanted to change the character of the company, spin off the ad and cloud businesses into two separate things and let them figure out the rest.

selling android or breaking it up would be terrible since you just go back to each manufacturer making their own flavor with no updates or compatability.

i really distrust Google and I'm glad about the verdict. I do agree that chrome and android should be cut off models.

edit: cut off from advertising business models

on the other hand, like with Firefox, I'm worried about the instability and changes that are coming, mainly in the effect on fork projects Like Graphene, Calyx, Lineage, any privacy-focused Chrome forks, and of course Chromium.

DOJ probably isn't able to guarantee chrome & potentially android are taken over by totally ethical, stable companies/NPOs who will keep the projects open source, or allow an open source offshoot project to which the new organization would still contribute coding people-hours.

I'm sure there will be some sort of guarantees for stock chrome and android users, like paid services/subscriptions will be continued or refunded.

but what about users of community projects based on chrome and Android?

many other Lemmy users have commented how community projects don't really have the resources to keep browser engines up to date, let alone innovate. without Google (which i think is a good thing), Microsoft Edge team could become the de facto direction-setter of Chronium (which i think is really really really bad).

TL;DR the foss mobile OS community, and especially the foss browser community (considering Firefox funding shortfall and AI/ad revenue pursuits) are possibly f*ed in the a for the near term.

Ok but is this like REAL yet or did they just say they intend to?