Google is offering a far more pared-down solution to the court’s ruling that it illegally monopolized search

  • rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Chrome is the exact thing they shouldn’t keep. Their main weapon together with the search engine.

    Anything but Chrome.

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      2 days ago

      It’d be cool if at some point in the future Android and their Advertisement business were forced to split. Be a dream if they had to make Android open source again like it used to be.

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        2 days ago

        IMHO that kind of advertisement business should be plain illegal. There are parts of it which are cheating, ultimately aimed at plausible deniability for “pay to be recommended” stuff. And what’s not cheating there, is something worse - commercial surveillance.

        Advertisement relates to competition for customer’s attention the same way as lying relates to competition for listener’s approval. It’s just harmful.