Top Justice Department antitrust officials have decided to ask a judge to force Alphabet Inc.’s Google to sell off its Chrome browser in what would be a historic crackdown on one of the world’s biggest tech companies.
  • iByteABit [comrade/them]
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    12 hours ago

    Waiting until it's coincidentally sold to a company indirectly funded by Google

  • Seasonal_Peace [he/him]
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    14 hours ago

    Sell it to whom, Ben? Another fucking private data hoarder? The problem isn’t just who owns Chrome, it’s the product itself and the way it’s designed to centralize control and exploit user data. Breaking it up or making it public would be the only way to fix this mess.

  • FumpyAer [any, comrade/them]
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    15 hours ago

    Trump's DOJ probably reverses this request in 30 seconds. I doubt this happens within two months.

    • footfaults [none/use name]
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      6 hours ago

      I wonder though. The right wing thinks tech companies "shadowban" them so maybe they let it go through?

    • kittin [he/him]
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      14 hours ago

      Except Google search is already dead in the water to LLM-powered search, so crippling Google empowers Peter Thiel

      • FumpyAer [any, comrade/them]
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        7 hours ago

        I actually looked up an archive link. Trump's first DOJ started this lawsuit, so potentially this could actually happen.

        I do think that Google is so uniquely powerful that selling off Chrome to someone else is a net positive. It won't make Google search lose its status as top search engine for a while.

        Stripping Chrome for parts would be better, but this is significant.

        https://archive.is/bBDQt