Google says government proposals would “harm America’s consumers.”…
  • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
    11·
    60 minutes ago

    Google says government proposals would “harm America’s consumers.”

    Says the company that couldn’t stand by the core value “don’t be evil”.

  • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
    50·
    3 hours ago

    The DOJ is asking the court to force Google to promptly and fully divest itself of Chrome, along with any data or other assets required for its continued operation. It is essentially aiming to take the Chrome user base—consisting of some 3.4 billion people—away from Google and hand it to a competitor

    Fuck yes, shatter that shit.

      • radix@lemmy.worldEnglish
        29·
        3 hours ago

        Seriously. The only people willing to pay what it’s “worth” will end up doing the same thing (or worse).

        What we need are some actual privacy laws with teeth, so that the data isn’t worth as much to begin with.

      • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
        14·
        3 hours ago

        Elon’s a dunce, so he’ll probably enshittify it so badly that people will leave. So google is weakened and chrome dies (at least, i hope in a good outcome)

        • NightOwl@lemmy.oneEnglish
          7·
          2 hours ago

          That regular people would stop using chrome if it turned into xhrome is highly unlikely. These are people who browse without adblocker, use facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and buy Amazon echos. It’d just lead to Doge influencing the direction of xhromium based browsers.

          • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
            2·
            2 hours ago

            True :( but we’ve seen how stupid he is, and now bluesky has become xitter’s #1 competitor because of his incompetence. Maybe, maybe, maybe…

      • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
        5·
        3 hours ago

        The optimist in me hopes not, but only time will tell.

        If he does i hope he tanks it so badly that it loses a huge chunk of market share - ideally when ladybird is ready.

      • NightOwl@lemmy.oneEnglish
        3·
        3 hours ago

        If that happened which would not surprise me with how ridiculous US government has been I’d be open to using Samsung’s Tizen over Doge controlled and influenced Xdroid.

        • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
          2·
          21 minutes ago

          I think what they were saying is: two powerful, competing corpos is better than one huge and practically omnipotent corporation, which is what google currently is.

          • NightOwl@lemmy.oneEnglish
            1·
            7 minutes ago

            Under normal circumstances, but i just have this suspicion that Musk will buy it using Russian and Saudi funding like was rumored for where he got the funding for Twitter.

            So whether that would be a better situation I guess is up to interpretation.

      • NightOwl@lemmy.oneEnglish
        9·
        2 hours ago

        Non profit under this US administration who’s mantra is what rules? Seems highly optimistic. I see it being more likely that Musk takes the opportunity to try and get the most popular browser and phone OS that is used world wide.

  • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
    10·
    3 hours ago

    If they really wanted to change the character of the company, spin off the ad and cloud businesses into two separate things and let them figure out the rest.

    • VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
      9·
      3 hours ago

      They’ll bend eventually. Money does that.

      Remember when DeSantis went to war with Disney? And Disney destroyed him and any chance he had to being a presidential candidate and we all cheered? Then Disney went around to make allegiance with all the non-DeSantis Republicans?

      It’s all money for stockholders at the end of the day. Not people, not who sits at the throne.