Technology

Just make them put support for manifest v2 back.

Which tech company would buy Chrome from Google? I just can't think of a single tech company that could be an improvement over Google owning Chrome.

• Amazon

• Apple

• Meta

• Microsoft

• Oracle

What about media companies? I don't see consumers benefiting from this.

• Comcast

• Disney

• Netflix

• Viacom

What about telecom? I still don't see consumers benefiting from this.

• AT&T

• T-Mobile

• Verizon

What about foreign companies? Will they be even allowed to buy Chrome? I'm not sure.

• LG

• Philips

• Samsung

• Sony

The more I think about it, this won't end well.

I guess Google didn’t bribe hard enough

Justice Department is 100% lobbing this over to JD Vance's buddy Peter Thiel who's going to enshittify it even further and turn it with its massive install base into a tool for techno-fascism.

A direct “donation” to Trump would instantly fix this.

or pay a generous fee of %0.00001 of your yearly earnings to make it go away

It would be better to not allow Google to have a major stake in the control of the Chromium project itself. Same for Android, force them to spin AOSP off into a nonprofit or sell it to EFF or something and forbid them from having a huge stake in it.

Let them use it for their own products, but remove their financial influence over the underlying software.

I'd cheer if I thought this was anything except a blackmail play when a Trump administration is now involved. They'll buy him off and it'll all be back to status quo by fall.

the doj doesn't care about monopolies; the doj just wants to punish people who don't push fascist agendas.

Why, what, is there something different about the Google guy?

Google should do the power play and completely open source the browser.

Microsoft Chrome

Meta Chrome

Amazon Chrome

Apple Chrome

Sell to who though

Solution: Create an open source foundation, cram the board with Google employees

I think this is good news which seems hard to believe right now. I'm sure someone will find a way to make this terrible but on it's face we are watching an important anti-trust ruling take place. Google's monopoly on the browser is dangerous and unhealthy. Taking it away from them is absolutely the right thing to do. Who inherits the power over the single browser used by most of the world remains to be seen though.

Thus the price of collaboration. You are not rewarded, you simply draw attention to yourself as someone with wealth they can pillage.

I don’t really get what selling Chrome and Android would accomplish. I’m all for breaking up tech monopolies but both of those projects are mostly open source that get proprietary Google crap and (for Android, at least, some monopolistic behavior like requiring what’s preinstalled, which is fine to ban).

I don’t work on ad-supported projects so I may be out of my element but it seems like what would actually help end the monopolistic behavior is requiring Google (and Facebook) to spin off their ad network businesses. The monopoly problem isn’t Chromium or AOSP or that Google runs ad-supported search. It’s that if [insert random site] wants ads, they typically use AdSense. If Facebook and Google want to run ad-supported services, fine. But they shouldn’t also also be the middlemen for advertisers who want to run ads on third party sites. That’s a recipe for monopolistic behavior.

In my ideal world, there would be no targeted ads at all and advertisers had to sponsor — and were so partly responsible for — the specific content they want to be associated with. But that probably isn’t going to happen since every politician is an advertiser that wants to launder their sponsorships through a middleman.