Report: DOJ wants to force Google Chrome sale, Android de-bundling (arstechnica.com)
from Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 19 Nov 16:51
https://lemmy.world/post/22210761

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gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works on 19 Nov 17:32 next collapse

This’ll be stalled until late January, and then it will go away

Telodzrum@lemmy.world on 19 Nov 18:39 collapse

Tump high-key fucking hates Google. I don’t know that this goes away.

AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml on 19 Nov 19:30 next collapse

Broken clock hopefully

schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business on 19 Nov 19:39 collapse

Yeah but all Google needs to do is back up a dump truck of cash to Mar A Lago, and he’ll forget all about whatever it was he didn’t like about Google and immediately start tweeting how he’s the bigliest fan of all the very good things Google is doing, so I’m going to skip the breath holding bit.

Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works on 19 Nov 20:01 next collapse

Ha. Just have copilot say nice things about him and he will probably change his mind for free!

affiliate@lemmy.world on 19 Nov 22:02 collapse

they could probably get him to forget by giving him a kiss on the cheek and a pat on the back

sunzu2@thebrainbin.org on 19 Nov 17:37 next collapse

Force Google to use firefox for "webview" on android

Money shot

All that investment hehe

LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 19 Nov 17:53 collapse

This would be so good. As someone who fully switched to Firefox on Android I hate that chrome webview is a thing.

Closest without rooting is to “uninstall updates” to the chrome app in the menu which makes it “APK Stub” instead of Chrome, ans then disabling Android Webview.

sunzu2@thebrainbin.org on 19 Nov 18:02 next collapse

If you are fucking with it that much... Have you heard of vanadium?

burgersc12@mander.xyz on 19 Nov 18:54 collapse

Only works for Pixels with Graphene

sunzu2@thebrainbin.org on 19 Nov 18:55 collapse

Can't take apk from github?

burgersc12@mander.xyz on 19 Nov 19:05 collapse

“Vanadium isn’t yet officially available for users outside GrapheneOS, although we plan to do that eventually. It won’t be able to provide the WebView outside GrapheneOS and will have missing hardening and other features” from their github

sunzu2@thebrainbin.org on 19 Nov 20:07 collapse

Well damn... Thanks for sharing.

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Giooschi@lemmy.world on 22 Nov 09:38 collapse

This would be so good. As someone who fully switched to Firefox on Android I hate that chrome webview is a thing.

Why does that bother you? There’s also a Firefox Webview you can use system-wide. I think only Google apps insists on opening Chrome’s webview.

LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 22 Nov 11:04 collapse

Huh? First time I hear of such a thing. How can I use this Firefox Webview system-wide?

Giooschi@lemmy.world on 22 Nov 16:26 collapse

Sorry, by looking more into it I realized webview is actually a different thing than what I was thinking about.

LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 23 Nov 03:39 collapse

No worries.

shoulderoforion@fedia.io on 19 Nov 18:04 next collapse

the same doj who had trump dead to rights in at least a dozen ways, and couldn't stop him in the last 4 years? that doj? bullshit in the last month and a half for headlines, so the doj employees and management about to be purged can burnish their bonifides for legal and lobbying firms they'll be working for come january 26th. don't publish this bullshit, it's insulting.

Brkdncr@lemmy.world on 19 Nov 21:00 collapse

How? Chrome is mostly chromium. They don’t sell Chrome, it’s free and they contribute to the project for free.

vinyl@lemmy.world on 20 Nov 02:23 collapse

Chromium is oss but chrome isn’t.