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Google must sell Chrome to end search monopoly, justice department argues in court filing (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 35 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'm worrying that whatever gets sold (Chrome or Android) might end up in the hands of someone even more scummy than Google.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    They would have to be more scummy and also at least similarly competent... Google can't innovate for crap, but they're pretty good at maintaining projects (when they don't randomly kill them off)

    If they stop work on chromium, or belief in the stewardship of chromium wanes, it'll fragment the ecosystem again. Which is sorely needed at this point - we need to get back to standards and away from centralized control

    Imagine Twitter/musk acquires them. Microsoft, Apple, and many other big companies directly or indirectly rely on a chain now controlled by a group known for mismanagement - are they going to wait and see, or are they going to diversify?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Is there any company more scummy than Google?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Chiquita and Nestlé come to mind. Within tech industry, I'd say Amazon and probably Microsoft are worse as well, and there's probably a ton of potentially even worse companies lurking in the shadows outside the top of the economic food chain.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I don't know man. There's a lot shittier business practices out there than paying to be the default search engine - which is laughably easy to change on any browser. Like marketplaces and services that pay to be exclusive sources of content and then use the fact that they're the only source for most content to force extortionate deals on content creators and enshitify every aspect of the end user experience. Just to name one.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Did you know that paying to be default search engine isn't the only business practice that Google does.

    Google has enshitified every single one of its products or deprecated it and then released an inferior replacement.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Is enshittification the scummiest thing you can think of? While other multinationals are paying for goon squads that kill people in other countries? While banks reorder daily transactions from largest to smallest so they can charge more overdraft fees, literally stealing from poor people? Even if enshittification is literally your biggest problem, you'd have to be living under a rock to think Google's products are the most enshitified of all the garbage out there. You've never heard of anything from Meta? Amazon? Netflix? Microsoft?

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