DOJ: Google Must Sell Off Chrome

[@mgatelabs]

Microsoft, you have the chance to do the funniest thing, buy chrome, rename it to internet explorer (edit: also change the default search engine to Bing)

[@chadmckean9026]

LOL that would be funny, but it would just be merged with Edge and renamed Microsoft chrome to convey the info to consumers

[@kenabi]

and wind up in the exact same situation as before? hard pass.

[@CommanderRiker0]

They basically already have that with Edge, Isn't it based on the same base project?

[@chadmckean9026]

@@CommanderRiker0 yes edge is chrome based

[@JackeryThompson-lq8zk]

It's infuriating. Chrome is not a monopoly. I have FIVE browsers that I use for different purposes. They have no idea what they are regulating.

[@Amipotsophspond]

judge: so you committed this crime. what would be a good public solution to address the crime you committed. bank robber: well, I should at least give 5% of the money I stole back to the bank but I'll go out of business if I have to give 10% and when I rob in the future I promise yell less so people are less afraid. judge: this all sounds reasonable I can see you are more then trying to be cooperative you don't have to go too far.

[@aac74]

Don't forget ChromeOS. Chrome can not be separated from it so it will have to go too and it has a 20% US market share, bigger than Apple on the desktop.

[@mariotime7821]

something something year of the linux desktop

[@JodyBruchon]

@@aac74 And that's 21% too much.

[@sqlexp]

That's why they are working hard to implement all ChromeOS functionalities in Android, then start making Pixel laptops, and stop making Chromebooks. They're going to shut down the web store and stop allowing web apps to run on future versions of ChromeOS so that only Android apps and Linux apps can run on ChromeOS.

[@horusfalcon]

@@sqlexp Interesting hypothesis. Any evidence for it out there? (I'm asking because I'd like to see it, not to challenge the hypothesis, mind.)

[@JonitoFischer]

The market share of chrome os is 2.12%, below the 4.31% of Linux desktop...

[@markcahalan5698]

Okay, but does this actually matter? Breaking news: Android partners with browser titan Chrome who partners with Google Ads....

[@TehKarmalizer]

Stuff like that could still see them penalized under antitrust laws.

[@username7763]

We've put so many features and standards into browsers it has become insanely expensive to develop a browser engine. That is the core problem. The web was never intended to be single browser / single vendor. The vast majority of these complications are not necessary. But now that they are there, you cannot create a browser without supporting 100 different ways to do CSS layout, ajax requests, sockets, javascript and so on.

[@nopenoperson9118]

How many "programs" are just skins on top of Chromium Embedded Framework? Discord and Steam immediately spring to mind.

[@kurtwinter4422]

Microsoft tried that with Edge - not the Chromium Edge - but og Edge that did everything better. Didn't last long.

[@gunt-her]

Yep, that's called monopoly. They made the architecture this bad on purpose.

[@myhandleiswhat]

Remember the old Playstation tagline of "it only does... everything"? That applies to internet browsers now.

[@mytech6779]

That really falls on users, who only care about instant gratification and don't care about the long term consequences of supporting broken bloated web development practices, spyware, and DRM. If a website is broken in a good browser (because the site is a bad actor), the user will switch to another browser that supports the bad website.

[@algavone]

I always thought Google + KZbin was too much power concentrated in one company.

[@comesignotus9888]

US justice becomes extremely slow and lenient every time when it comes to protecting people from monopolies.

[@Joshua-pr9vg]

Well if you deconstruct US economy... the main goal most corporations have is to corner a market which essentially is the same as thing as monopolizing. So, we here in the US say with our mouths monopolies are bad for the culture and economy and even pass laws to deter such things, then turn around and focus all our efforts on finding ways to form monopolies. In other words... because it makes the stock values rise. So, it is baked into the cake. The folks in Washinton make money from this system. They have no incentive to end unfair toxic business practices.

[@I_Am_Your_Problem]

@@Joshua-pr9vg Impossible to take you cereal.

[@piked86]

Im old enough to remember when microsoft got in trouble for similar things. Remember when a page wouldn't load in Netscape and only Internet Explorer? Microsoft made website building tools and ensured this problem. Google has taken control of Internet standards in the way the Microsoft tried to.

[@asdfqwerty-u9n]

chrome dont show certain formats either and if i dont want chrome users on my site I would use them

[@dantenotavailable]

Chrome's monopoly vs IE's Monopoly are very different things. In so far as Google has "taken control of Internet standards" at least there's still a standard that (generally) takes input from people other than Google. Comparatively, MS just completely ignored the standards and they weren't worth anything because you could be standards compliant or you could be viewable by 90% of the internet. Probably the biggest effect of Chrome's monopoly i've seen is Manifest V3 which sort of hamstrung browser security (allegedly) because it was threatening the advertising business.

[@KAZVorpal]

No, websites wouldn't load in Netscape communicator, because Netscape Communicator was garbage.

[@dantenotavailable]

​@@KAZVorpal While there's some truth to that, it's also true that most of the sites that wouldn't load in Netscape Navigator (Navigator was the browser, Communicator was the entire suite and everything outside of Navigator was definitely trash) because they would have something saying "if your user agent doesn't contain IE then say that i'm not compatible" which was more often than not incorrect (which was why IE and Firefox gained the ability to mimic other user agents) and almost entirely because the site was relying on components that would only work on Windows (COM/ActiveX based). That's the MS plan that "Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish" came from. I'm never going to say that Navigator was the greatest but it was on par with comparable IE releases (not saying much, IE was dogshit too). When Firefox came out it was a huge improvement.

[@exe_]

man, thanks for your hard work, it's nice to still have a journalist that's not a talking head for companies.

[@nopenoperson9118]

How many "programs" are just skins on top of Chromium Embedded Framework? Discord and Steam immediately spring to mind.

[@tuningmachine]

The vast majority of the people that work for Alphabet donated money to the politicians responsible for appointing the very people who want to break up the company.

[@unter1103]

really just shows everything around you is being ran by nitwits

[@clutchboi4038]

It's beautiful isn't it? 😂 Got what they voted for

[@imnotusingmyrealname4566]

and?

[@corinnacohn7389]

What’s more, and this is vital to understand, most of the Alphabet employees are politically disposed to the destruction of powerful institutions, including that of their own employer.

[@rottenmeat5934]

Funny how the closest companies to regulators are all exiting the browser market.

[@Timely-ud4rm]

I wonder what'll happen to KZbin if Google gets broken up - who might buy it or what changes we'll see? Honestly, while Google deserves these lawsuits, there are bigger fish to fry. Take BlackRock for example - they're a much more serious concern. They don't just own one industry, they have stakes in everything from the tech you use to the food you eat. Sure, some argue they're "just" an investment company, but that's exactly the problem - they have influence over all companies, that could push for price hikes, pump rent prices, and affect everyday costs. They have more control than Apple, Google, and Microsoft combined, yet they fly under the radar. THAT'S who we should be breaking up.

[@zuzoscorner]

More controll then the USA goverment. that's creepy

[@DocNo27]

Should let uBlock Origin back into the chrome store - ha!

[@pyrioncelendil]

Should let AdNauseam back into the Chrome store.

[@nicoleking772]

ORRRRRR, you could just do a simple web search and find it on numerous locations

[@sourdface]

"Baby Googles" sounds like it belongs in the same class as "Coco Melon" style of children's entertainment

[@iiisaac1312]

A long time ago, the Bell System basically had a monopoly on the phone system. When they were broken up in 1982, the smaller companies were called "Baby Bells"

[@sourdface]

@iiisaac1312 Baby Bel is also a cheese

[@renderlessgames]

Aka colorful, mindless garbage

[@Dave102693]

@@iiisaac1312yeah ATT and Verizon used to be apart of Bell Atlantic

[@KAZVorpal]

That is a stupid, empty gesture. Which is why they're doing it. This is essentially sweeping the problem under the rug. It's a fucking open source project. Make them sell off YuckTub. Make them sell off Gmail.

[@tiagotiagot]

Imagine if somehow the EFF or the Tor Project ends up buying it...

[@lesath7883]

THAT would be awesome. Do they have the resources for that?

[@tuckersguitarfiasco]

dude that would be so cool

[@etziowingeler3173]

lol no

[@distorted_heavy]

Tor Project? Bro

[@DxBlack]

They CLEARLY don't have the money for it.

[@AFistfulOf4K]

Wow, imagine Android or Chrome if its developers' goal was to make them function better instead of just integrate as much Google dogshit as possible

[@chaos.corner]

I knew things were on the downturn when they started moving functionality out of the open part of the OS and into the proprietary Play Services.

[@ddoumeche]

it's extremely hard and expensive to build an embeddable browser engine, and if Mozilla foundation had done a decent work with their browser, developers would use inside their programs. But no, they preferred to concentrate on failed projets like Firefox Os, discontinuing embeddable Gecko and layoff their browser team Now Servo is a project of the Linux foundation

[@floppa9415]

unless they are run by the mother of all nonprofits I don't see how splitting them off from Google would do anything but significantly hurt these Projects. Android and Chrome by themselves do not need to make any money but if they were owned by another smaller company they most certainly would. Then the big enshitification would happen.

[@addmix]

I think that KZbin must also be separated from google.

[@chudchadanstud]

Google isn't the problem with KZbin. It's management and legacy media.

[@dantenotavailable]

I have a feeling that forcing KZbin to pay market rates for bandwidth and storage would certainly take a huge bite out of the pie remaining for ad revenue sharing.

[@julianbruns7459]

Google have abused their ownership of chrome to maintain their search monopoly. Have they done something similar with youtube?

[@Black_Cat_997]

We need people like you to stop "thinking" so poorly.

[@addmix]

@@Black_Cat_997 womp womp

[@loki42dnd]

I wonder how many pieces of Google could survive without Ad-sense cash subsidies.

[@TheAllSeeingIan]

But is independent Chrome really a business proposition? It only works because it’s a part of Google’s strategy. Who would buy it and how would they make money, given the Firefox situation with loss of the Google revenue for search defaults? Microsoft or Apple?

[@vytah]

If someone buys it and slows down development so that the competition can catch up, then it'd be nice

[@DxBlack]

Mozilla: "IF ONLY I WEREN'T POOR!"

[@renderlessgames]

Mozilla should have gotten that Ukraine Israel money tbh

[@spiritofstar]

@@renderlessgameswhat? Why and how would that even happen?

[@KAZVorpal]

Mozilla: "If only I didn't suck." Firefox: "If only I weren't woke bloatware."

[@pyrioncelendil]

Mozilla's being kept afloat by the goddamn Soros Foundation. They've got the backing of a billionaire and still they somehow manage to be poor.

[@nicoleking772]

Mozilla: IF ONLY you weren't so woke

[@ILoveFreeBSD]

So when are we going to see the breakup of microsoft, amazon, every single US ISP, etc. ?

[@nandoflorestan]

Let us also not forget Adobe and Apple in that list...

[@pyrioncelendil]

The cable ISPs, yeah, they deserve some comeuppance.

[@ApoMaTu3aTop]

To whom it is going to sell it to though?

[@User9681e]

Microsoft probably wants a share of the pie

[@lesath7883]

Well, splitting stuff does not necessarily means selling it. Selling is one way, though.

[@vytah]

Elon

[@pyrioncelendil]

@@User9681e Microsoft wouldn't benefit from buying it. Edge is already a Chromium fork, and it costs them basically nothing.

[@MoeE3999]

​@@pyrioncelendilyes they would benefit. They would own the most used browser so they can do whatever they want with it to their advantage

[@Joshua-pr9vg]

This is good. We need more of this.

[@DivergentDroid]

That's not a slap on the wrist or even a band aid. I think splitting these companies up is a sly way of creating Two monopolies out of one.

[@pluto8404]

duopoly is the term I think youre looking for.

[@justanothercomment416]

@@pluto8404 Federally, it's not considered competition unless there are three or more options available.

[@pluto8404]

​@justanothercomment416 ironic since our elections only have 2 real options.

[@SenileOtaku]

@@pluto8404 Well, start voting third-party then. The Libertarian Party would welcome you.

[@MCNOISE666]

RESIDENTS❤

[@dalulu418]

Splitting it up has no bearing on the problem with the monopoly Google holds. That's how the biggest companies conserve their power over decades. They need to rebrand and conceal their identity through various companies to remain under the radar. The same was true for the Rockefeller Foundation roughly a hundred years ago. Today, very few people even know its name, but its power and influence in the market remain significant.

[@coenraadloubser5768]

Has there been any ruling of this scale since Microsoft was forced to do this in 2000? ... And didn't that ruling pave the way to the vibrant tech sector we have today? ... Would Google even have been what it is today, if not for that ruling?...

[@nephatrine]

Microsoft wasn't forced to sell off IE, though, just stop forcing it on users. Penalizing companies for doing monopolistic things seems very different to me than penalizing them for having a product be too successful. Forcing google to stop making deals to be default search would make sense, forcing it to sell chrome would not.

[@AndRei-yc3ti]

​@@nephatrine its not being penalized for being too successful. Its penalized for its anticompetotive practices

[@justanothercomment416]

@@nephatrine They steered Firefox into the ditch so they could have a successful monopoly with Chrome.

[@AndRei-yc3ti]

@Tyneras google did many anticompetitive things to force people to adopt chrome and destroy the competition

[@sqlexp]

​@@justanothercomment416Mozilla dares not improve Firefox to surpass Chrome and risk angering its money lord. Instead, Mozilla just keeps Firefox mediocre and sabotages all features that can increase market share.

[@Amipotsophspond]

chrome with 90% market share is still a monopoly, and android with 60% market share is also still a monopoly. it's just not chrome and android, together.

[@vytah]

It's still progress. Right now, Chrome is designed to serve Google's interests, not the users'. The whole manifest v3, Google deliberately slowing websites on Firefox, or making some website features work only on Chrome, and so on

[@cbdp]

Will be interesting to see how this goes, but I won't celebrate until I know it turns out.

[@alphago9397]

.. I wonder what will become of Google's data centers with suspiciously high (practically military-grade) security ..? 🤔

[@ФеофанЭтополедолжнобытьзаполне]

I wonder if they have the balls to split into 33 new companies named from A to Z.

[@StrawberryKitten]

33???

[@asdfhjoaijfosdfhkasjnkaa]

В английском алфавите 26 букв?

[@ФеофанЭтополедолжнобытьзаполне]

@@StrawberryKitten aw, sheet. Russian spy exposed himself on account of alphabetical differences. Classic 🤭

[@ejolite]

And who's going to finance Chrome? Why would anyone buy the company?

[@pyrioncelendil]

Considering Chromium is an open-source project, Chrome is literally nothing more than an icon and some customized UI elements. There's basically nothing for anyone to actually buy.

[@sakalava47]

It would be funny if Yahoo bought it.

[@bobclarke5913]

Yahoo still exists?

[@kenabi]

@@bobclarke5913 barely. pretty big in japan still though, from what i've seen.

[@lesath7883]

That would be epic. "You know we declined your proposal years ago......"

[@TehKarmalizer]

@@bobclarke5913 it’s where boomers get their internet news and recipes when they aren’t on Facebook.

[@donaldbaird7849]

​@@bobclarke5913 Yeah. Current day idk what they do, but Ik they fund a few Linux distros.

[@dantenotavailable]

I actually wouldn't be surprised if Google would suggest shelling chrome out into a separate entity. They may however try to pull a sneaky and maintain de facto control over the chromium project. As you mentioned, there's a goodly number of browsers out there, most of them are Chromiums (particularly when Firefox becomes volunteer only). The reason that Google went into the browser business to begin with is because there was a risk that MS and Apple would block them from the advertising game entirely.

[@pyrioncelendil]

Particularly as all Chrome really is is an icon and some UI elements slathered atop Chromium. All Google actually loses is brand recognition.

[@Techsupport243]

Need to completely separate every aspect of Google.

[@donaldturnbull]

What does this mean for Chomebook?

[@paxcoder]

I heard today that ChromeOS is already being replaced by Android. Not saying it's related.

[@No-mq5lw]

100% going with the Chrome web browser

[@JodyBruchon]

@@donaldturnbull it means buy a real computer.

[@sqlexp]

It will be replaced with Pixel book or Pixel laptop, whichever name they choose, running Android.

[@Dave102693]

It’s being killed off

[@seancollins9745]

They need to split KZbin and search apart

[@SenileOtaku]

Would probably have to be bought by some company like IBM or (barf) Oracle.

[@gblargg]

Does that mean that Chrome might eventually be developed to cater to users rather than advertisers? Imagine a browser that improves its plugin interface to make ad blocking easier, not harder. I might actually try it on desktop if this happens.

[@cccpkingu]

Chrome getting sold and FF revenue halting sounds like a win-win.

[@SierraSierraFoxtrot]

I can't believe Google was a monopoly the whole time! I did not see this twist coming...

[@TheJimNicholson]

After 40+ years of working in IT, I've learned that the only thing more stupid than tech company leadership is the Department of Justice.

[@Anonymous-e7t3w]

This guy gets it.

[@pyrioncelendil]

Yeah I could totally see the DoJ slicing Chromium off and selling it to, say, Oracle. And nobody would doubt the veracity of the above claim.

[@Harry_Tick]

So they gonna have to let KZbin go too? Force google to stay in the search engine market?

[@OctagonalSquare]

Imagine if they were forced to split off their ad department.

[@kissmiasma95]

I hope they're forced to sell off TTS because voice typing on Android is virtually useless at this point. It worked very well about 5 years ago. Just another example of Google's adoption of a product/service causing enshitification soon after the fact.

[@VeryBratty]

holy yes take android away from google

[@CRYPTiCEXiLE]

dude u realize thats not a good idea

[@georgeokello8620]

@@CRYPTiCEXiLEAndroid is currently very bloated and it needs to be redone

[@taaest-xek]

@@CRYPTiCEXiLE They are dumb what do you expect ...

[@SenileOtaku]

What we need is for cellphone manufactures to UNLOCK their bootloaders. They definitely should have to provide unlocking tools the moment any device goes out of support.

[@VeryBratty]

@@taaest-xek they? who's they?

[@msromike123]

No final decision has been made. The case is still ongoing. So, "Google Must Sell Off Chrome" not yet. As far as Android, the potential remedies have been changes to Play store, not forcing a sale of Android.

[@unter1103]

finally but i still dont like chrome

[@moetocafe]

If they brake up Ggl into small companies, this has the potential to fix a lot of the stagnation in the IT industry and become a stimulus for new and interesting development.

[@SierraSierraFoxtrot]

What would you do if you knew your critical product will not be yours in 1-2 years? How would you mitigate the damage?

[@yahm0n]

Manifest V3 was the straw that broke the camel's back.

[@BlueDolphinBlues]

How is this going to affect the quality of the chrome browser?

[@justfellover]

Awesome. When do I get degoogled chrome?

[@MinePossu]

When microsoft acquires it. ❤

[@pyrioncelendil]

When you go download the basic Chromium browser, or any other browser based on Chromium.

[@nilkonom]

there is literally a browser called ungoogled-chromium

[@samuellourenco1050]

Now, the billion dollar question is: who wants to buy a problematic browser that is riddled with issues?

[@loganmedia4401]

Make Alphabet pay someone to take it.

[@Demopans5990]

Open source the entirety of Chrome

[@eternal864]

Ultimately, this may or may not affect google's revenue, but hardly anything changes for the people.

[@gurupartapkhalsa6565]

While my knee-jerk reaction to this is, "Who is John Gald?" After it sunk in for a while I was left thinking that Chrome is really the produce of a collective, there is no true claimant.

[@WilliamAshleyOnline]

doesn't microsoft basically have the same model though with Edge? just personally for being targetted ads I havn't seen anything I like, so something isn't right. imo it is more about tracking and profiling people the ad stuff is just a cover for the data gathering.

[@kenwood7195]

Now the DOJ should look at the way Apple uses its iphone and server tech to provide Apple only messaging features.

[@pyrioncelendil]

Would only be fair if Apple had to divest itself of its entire walled garden. That would be an order of magnitude more hilarious than this.

[@SomeRandomDeveloper]

It's not just Google who are a monopoly, what about Microsoft and them constantly forcing Edge, this now can't be uninstalled without a lot of hassle. Apple are just as bad.

[@ivolol]

The scariest part of this is I don't know what large, competent private entity I even trust more than Google to run chrome/chromium the project.

[@turtlefrog369]

buying chrome makes no sense, when anyone could make a patchset against chromium already. Chrome is just a google patchset on top of chromium. unless someone wants to buy all of chromeOS of course. But still does not make sense in my head. Microsoft should also be forced to sell Edge then. It just seems like they want to prevent youtube from being sold.

[@bigppbigproblems]

Google should be forced to sell KZbin and Android at the very least

[@magicalnoodles]

Google would be very happy to sell off KZbin. It's a massive money sink that relies on ad revenue and data collection to barely exist. It's only very recently that KZbin has brought any profit. I'm curious if anyone is actually willing to even buy YT

[@innovationsanonymous8841]

Make KZbin great again

[@nixielee]

I have a hard time seeing how this would matter at all. You do a company split to raise value of both companies, not lower it.

[@xwize]

How can Microsoft be allowed to keep edge?

[@etmax1]

The reason why Chrome is so dominant is because Google has done a Microsoft where they've created proprietary web interface extensions that Mozilla and others don't support such that there dominance is assured and expanding IMHO.

[@floppa9415]

Its not like Firefox doesn't have their own "extensions" or quirks as well. Everyone who has worked with CSS knows there are half a half a dozen -moz prefixed css properties. Also many of Chromium's "exclusive" features like WebUSB or WebNFC are officially accepted W3C Specs that Firefox and Safari just don't implement for some reason. Problem is that for most product managers "Chromium only" is good enough because it is the de-facto standard, especially on Desktop.

[@renderlessgames]

And KZbin...

[@SmaugMedia]

chrome??? wtf how tf they going to make any money chrome is basically just the chromium project which everyone else uses? except firefox

[@utfigyii5987]

They can control how web is browsed which in turn returns as income from data and ads. For example, manifest v3. They just killed off adblocking, making more google ads visible.

[@runderwo]

You need to frame in a previous video where you're framing yourself in, for a more maximal Hall of Lundukes effect.

[@ConfidentialMeerkat]

OK, but they will just set up an entire new company that they still have control over. Appoint someone who worked or part-time works for them and will then set up a partnership so they can share the information. It will be like the uks BT and OPENREACH conundrum all over again, and i'm sure there are many more examples.

[@BharatK169]

I think they might sell gmail and google drive

[@hanselito2416]

I just want google to take users' privacy more seriously than consumers wishes. Very sketchy business.

[@sillonbono3196]

As much as google is bad I do not think breaking them will improve anything, forcing them to comply with open standards would be a much better outcome.

[@Joshua-pr9vg]

It is a step...

[@emptylog933]

They do comply with open standards though. Really well in fact. A lot of nonstandard browser specific cruft had to be included for interoperability early on, but that is slowly getting phased out since those old browsers and sites don't exist anymore. What they actually do is use their position to advocate for new standards, but if the other players don't play ball, then there is really nothing Google can do about it.

[@Pengochan]

google no longer in possession of android, wouldn't that free android from the google store to some extent?

[@emptylog933]

They said Android, not Google Play. Very different things. Android is the AOSP project that is currently free and open-source. In other words, a money sink.

[@Pengochan]

@@emptylog933 Well the question is, what it would mean that google has to give up / reduce its control over android. I don't think it's a good thing, that one company has control over the software (realistically) available on most android devices. It allows a form of censoring.

[@VictoriaBritish47]

​@@Pengochanexactly what Google says and this would hurt the Market being realistic nobody will want to create a company in the USA from the protection of the company and Japan doesn't kill themselves in the technology area but America does

[@JodyBruchon]

Friendly reminder that regardless of this, the Chromium monoculture is a very bad thing and you should use Firefox-based forks only to combat it. No Brave, Edge, or Opera.

[@TheObsesedAnimeFreaks]

or... you can encourage brave to hard fork chromium...

[@averdadeeumaso4003]

Eh not every site works with every browser type, Brave + LibreWolf seem to be the best fork of each base currently

[@manitoba-op4jx]

i have been saying this for 10 years, and i think you have, too

[@JodyBruchon]

@@TheObsesedAnimeFreaks No, do you just not understand what a monoculture is?

[@omargodinez7256]

you should also fit your car with square wheels to combat the dominance of round wheels monoculture

[@Brickcaster]

Good. Google is too big.

[@thalateye]

100%... Google can be just a search engine. You know... like how it should be.

[@jaysonrees738]

@@thalateye Google was never just a search engine.

[@eddielopez5708]

What ever the outcome, Mozilla should get 10% of the stock if it want to survive.

[@Harry_Tick]

Never underestimat Google or Kammy's ability to blow it. In the end. They all follow the ring into the fire.

[@marna_li]

I don't want the government to rule what is a monopoly, but given that they themselves create monopoly situations without admitting to it - by hiring the first and "best" company, government contract, and giving them a lot of money. The market is not fair because of this.

[@dustinmiller2775]

They get to keep Adreno, though? 🤨

[@minakatahizuru]

I use Bing

[@innovationsanonymous8841]

Bing was best for image search, last I checked

[@pyrioncelendil]

My condolences.

[@GarrethandPipa]

Googles BIG money comes from the search engine ad revenue. chrome is how it gets the personal browsing data it sells

[@sandpaper4483]

Wasn't that lawsuit supposed to happen in 2001

[@Some_Tired_Person]

...And I just bought a chromebook. Is that going to become useless now? Ain't going back to Microsoft.

[@Free_kitty0]

Nothing is permanent.

[@juandig]

I don't see how Chrome is the majority of Google's income. Wouldn't it be more like the search engine that displays the ads and gets the search data which runs on most browsers by default? Or perhaps Google AdSense which is... Ads... For most websites these days

[@UbuntuPersonNoMint]

As a chrome fan I hope this doesnt screw me over in anyway.

[@vaikjsf34a]

I hope KZbin is broken off too, either that, or break off everything else - chrome, android, etc. But I think they should be fair, and break apart Microsoft too.

[@AnIndepentThinker]

This would be awesome!

[@harminparra7678]

Why Microsoft wasn't forced to split up back in the 90's ?

[@pyrioncelendil]

Because the antitrust investigation persisted across the change of a Presidential administration. Dubya basically ensured that Microsoft got off with a slap on the wrist.

[@loganmedia4401]

Corrupt government.

[@howardstern9764]

Blackrock is also a monopoly

[@Srootus]

You just know Microsoft aee drooling over this

[@timhill6440]

Lee-Ann Mulholland is right

[@lenOwOo]

If it's actually going throu, i wonder wha'ts business model chrome and android company would have.

[@haniqassim]

Google is a supply company with its web search and consumer company with its browser. Owning supply and demand is a clear monopoly. The split should’ve been done long ago.

[@Juttutin]

How would a company monetise Chrome. It's not chrome that does ad-insertion it's the websites.

[@AlucardNoir]

It's nice to have some good news for once.

[@helmargesel3972]

Thanks for the good news 👍 👏

[@user-qr4jf4tv2x]

just make sure google parts don't get sold to the Chinese or will get more breaches

[@MastermindAtWork]

Is this the main reason why they're trying to fuse ChromeOS with Android? I mean sure, I'm all for the move but I hope this doesn't take away what little customization ChromeOS had like being able to use Linux to use some something other than Vanilla Google Chrome.

[@Dave102693]

They are actually planning to sunset it The web browser will probably be next

[@erb34]

Maybe Tencent could buy it.