The U.S. Department of Justice will ask a judge to force Alphabet Inc.'s Google to sell off its Chrome browser, Bloomberg reported on Monday.

Note: Original report by Bloomberg, article by Reuters proxied by Neuters to bypass paywall.

  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    1 month ago

    That’s exactly what I was thinking. It also makes Chrome essentially worthless to anyone except Google.

    • ayyyEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      Maybe as a whole package, but node.js servers are ubiquitous and have a ton of stakeholders that have nothing to do with web browsers.

        • ayyyEnglish
          2·
          1 month ago

          Same JS engine, same maintainers, same iron-grip control by Google.

            • ayyyEnglish
              2·
              30 days ago

              The JavaScript (code) engine that powers Chrome is the same JavaScript (code) engine that powers Node servers. Node is used to power a large portion of web applications and internal corporate tools. The Chromium/Node project is under the tight control of Google engineers.