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Justice Department considering push for historic break up of Google after landmark antitrust ruling: report (nypost.com)

submitted 4 months ago by Gsus4@mander.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Drewelite@lemmynsfw.com 58 points 4 months ago (2 children)

God I hope it ends up splitting off Chrome. I think Google has done a great job with Chrome. But the recent Manifest v3 makes it clear they're going to greatly degrade their users' experience for Google's bottom line. And they're using their market dominance to do it.

[–] pingveno@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What does that even look like as a business model, though? There's an expectation now that you don't pay for web browsers. What would a standalone Chrome, Inc. look like?

[–] Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Something very close to Mozilla in my opinion. They'd have the browser as their core product, a few more apps as a logical extension of that (maybe a mail client like Thubderbird), perhaps Chrome Inc would inherit google's office suite? That would be a breath of fresh air. Maybe revive a few of Google's killed ventures that seemed more than promising.

[–] nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Mozilla basically gets all its money from Google

Chrome on its own does not make Google money, in fact the only reason they care about chrome is because it helps Google search engine. I can't find the article, but there was an email from a google exec saying something along those lines

[–] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah, they could puppet the chrome company if the courts don't keep a close eye on it. Basically there's a good chance it would be another Firefox but with way more influence.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Mozilla is about to have serous issues because almost 90% of their funding was from Google's illegal payments to make them the default search engine.

So maybe not the best model after all.

[–] BangCrash@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Isn't Manifest 3 about 3rd party tracking cookies?

Everyones going ape about UBlock, but that's an unintended consequence.

I'm very happy to have 3 party cookies more limited. FB already tracks me everywhere everywhen.

(But I will be very very sad when UBlock doesn't work anymore)

[–] Drewelite@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 4 months ago

That's what they want to focus on. And hey, that's great. But there's no reason they need to limit how a user installed plugin can filter API requests. Ad blockers and the like were tools to help with the ads and tracking issue. So it's great Google's trying to help. But it mostly just seems like PR at this point.