DOJ calls for breakup of Google and sale of Chrome (www.nbcnews.com)
from yogthos@lemmy.ml to technology@lemmy.ml on 21 Nov 13:37
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scottmeme@sh.itjust.works on 21 Nov 14:39 next collapse

When’s Microsoft

krakenfury@lemmy.sdf.org on 21 Nov 15:15 next collapse

Lina Khan has a snowball’s chance in the FTC under Trump.

admin@lemmy.my-box.dev on 21 Nov 16:00 collapse

2007

PanArab@lemmy.ml on 21 Nov 15:37 collapse

Chrome and Android should be spun off into independent companies.

yogthos@lemmy.ml on 21 Nov 15:46 collapse

Indeed, and frankly Chrome should be operated as a non profit because browsers have become an essential service.

admin@lemmy.my-box.dev on 21 Nov 15:54 collapse

Absolutely.

The only reason Chrome has been slowing down the deprecation of 3rd party cookies is because it would make it harder to do privacy invading tracking, and thus, would make Google less money.

No browser benefits from tracking. Only ad companies do.

yogthos@lemmy.ml on 21 Nov 16:10 collapse

Indeed, it’s a huge conflict of interest for an ad company to operate the most popular browser. Google being the gatekeeper for the internet is a really terrible situation for the web as a whole.