Is the DOJ the only working system in the US now?
this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2024
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Big doubt anything actually happens.
The Reuters article suggests prohibiting payments to Apple so that Chrome users on their hardware default to Google search. What about default settings to Firefox? Similar agreements finance a large portion of Mozilla's revenue.
>sell Chrome to open search monopoly
>Chrome isn't a search engine but a web browser
Yeah, Google pays other companies lots of money to have its search engine enabled by default. That's what the lawsuit argued, so I'm not sure how separating chrome from the company will change that...
It has massive market share and uses Google search by default. If another company owns the browser, they'll likely change the default search engine, and since almost nobody changes the defaults, it'll eat away at Google's marketshare.
For example, Microsoft would be pretty interested in buying it to promote Bing search. Edge is already based on Chromium, so they could reuse their existing teams to offer support for it.
They should force google to kick sundar, the harmful thing, what made all google software, and services shit since it is the ceo...
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