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Well hopefully Google will pay the price for their greed soon enough. https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/03/doj-google-must-sell-chrome-android-could-be-next/

Well hopefully Google will pay the price for their greed soon enough. https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/03/doj-google-must-sell-chrome-android-could-be-next/ https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/03/doj-google-must-sell-...

internetter 2y ago
They won't under the trump admin
- zdragnar 2y ago
  The trump admin got this ball rolling way back in 2017.
  - internetter 2y ago
    Just like the TikTok ban they also got the ball rolling on?
    - KaoruAoiShiho 2y ago
      The TikTok ban is still happening, some trump donator will end up owning majority of tiktok.
    - HideousKojima 2y ago
      Funny you should mention that: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/10/trump-tiktok-sale https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/10/trump-tik... Yes, Tik Tok still needs to divest ownership or be banned in the US
      - ta1243 2y ago
        I do hope that other countries ban american saas products which are not majority owned by that country.
        internetter 2y ago
        Would you describe yourself as isolationist?
  - knowitnone 2y ago
    just pay $10 million to have a sit with him and all your troubles disappear
    - anjel 2y ago
      Be sure to wear your 100k Trump-Watch for the sitdown outside of the Pork Store.
  - culi 2y ago
    The Biden admin pursued antitrust in tech even more seriously than Trump. That's part of why big tech rallied behind Trump in 2024
    - csomar 2y ago
      It's almost like giving your estates too much power will result in a coup by the estate. A story as old as time but keeps repeating none the less.
- CharlesW 2y ago
  It depends on whether Google bends the knee, as Amazon and Facebook have done.
  - leeoniya 2y ago
    Gulf of America would like a word...
  - csomar 2y ago
    The Tech coup has already happened and tech has switched sides to red. Google will bend the knee as everybody else did.
- zzbzq 2y ago
  Trump's DoJ just submitted basically the same remedy proposal last Friday, it's on
- gruez 2y ago
  >article dated Mar 10, 2025
winwang 2y ago
As much as I dislike their Chrome practices, I am rather against the idea of forcing them to sell Chrome. For one, they simply have had a better product, at least in the past. Part of their large monopoly is due to just being better outright for a large portion of users (presumably). Are we to punish making overly-good products? For another, sell to whom? And why would they be a good steward? And yet another, there's literally Chromium, which other browsers (built by other corps) use, e.g. Edge, Brave, etc. Did Google have to open Chromium? No. Disclaimer: I hold these opinions weakly and would love to learn more about why they might be ill-premised.
- opan 2y ago
  >Did Google have to open Chromium? No. Google did not make Chromium from scratch, and so were obligated to use a license compatible with the previous source they used. That source can be traced back to KDE's Konqueror browser and its KHTML engine.
  - jpc0 2y ago
    Your argument is that Google couldn't possibly have written their own web engine and browser at a time when Firefox and IE were the alternative options?
    - opan 2y ago
      I'm simply saying that they didn't, and thus they did have to "open" it, or rather keep it "open".
      - jpc0 2y ago
        I would argue they didn't have to "open" it at all, they could have just built up from scratch. However they chose to do it in the open, side benefit they also got to use a ton of preexisting code.
  - winwang 2y ago
    Thank you, this type of info is pretty much exactly what I hoped to learn :D

internetter 2y ago

They won't under the trump admin

zdragnar 2y ago
The trump admin got this ball rolling way back in 2017.
- internetter 2y ago
  Just like the TikTok ban they also got the ball rolling on?
  - KaoruAoiShiho 2y ago
    The TikTok ban is still happening, some trump donator will end up owning majority of tiktok.
  - HideousKojima 2y ago
    Funny you should mention that: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/10/trump-tiktok-sale https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/10/trump-tik... Yes, Tik Tok still needs to divest ownership or be banned in the US
    - ta1243 2y ago
      I do hope that other countries ban american saas products which are not majority owned by that country.
      - internetter 2y ago
        Would you describe yourself as isolationist?
- knowitnone 2y ago
  just pay $10 million to have a sit with him and all your troubles disappear
  - anjel 2y ago
    Be sure to wear your 100k Trump-Watch for the sitdown outside of the Pork Store.
- culi 2y ago
  The Biden admin pursued antitrust in tech even more seriously than Trump. That's part of why big tech rallied behind Trump in 2024
  - csomar 2y ago
    It's almost like giving your estates too much power will result in a coup by the estate. A story as old as time but keeps repeating none the less.
CharlesW 2y ago
It depends on whether Google bends the knee, as Amazon and Facebook have done.
- leeoniya 2y ago
  Gulf of America would like a word...
- csomar 2y ago
  The Tech coup has already happened and tech has switched sides to red. Google will bend the knee as everybody else did.
zzbzq 2y ago
Trump's DoJ just submitted basically the same remedy proposal last Friday, it's on
gruez 2y ago
>article dated Mar 10, 2025

winwang 2y ago

As much as I dislike their Chrome practices, I am rather against the idea of forcing them to sell Chrome. For one, they simply have had a better product, at least in the past. Part of their large monopoly is due to just being better outright for a large portion of users (presumably). Are we to punish making overly-good products? For another, sell to whom? And why would they be a good steward? And yet another, there's literally Chromium, which other browsers (built by other corps) use, e.g. Edge, Brave, etc. Did Google have to open Chromium? No. Disclaimer: I hold these opinions weakly and would love to learn more about why they might be ill-premised.

opan 2y ago
>Did Google have to open Chromium? No. Google did not make Chromium from scratch, and so were obligated to use a license compatible with the previous source they used. That source can be traced back to KDE's Konqueror browser and its KHTML engine.
- jpc0 2y ago
  Your argument is that Google couldn't possibly have written their own web engine and browser at a time when Firefox and IE were the alternative options?
  - opan 2y ago
    I'm simply saying that they didn't, and thus they did have to "open" it, or rather keep it "open".
    - jpc0 2y ago
      I would argue they didn't have to "open" it at all, they could have just built up from scratch. However they chose to do it in the open, side benefit they also got to use a ton of preexisting code.
- winwang 2y ago
  Thank you, this type of info is pretty much exactly what I hoped to learn :D