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Re:Google isn’t the company that we should have handed the W... by sonnyblarney on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @07:55PM (#18712078)
It's the 'One Ring To Rule Them All' problem.

They are fine until you hand it over to them and then they are a problem :)

The pragmatic answer is firewalls between layers (i.e. browser separate from search), and competition in layers, plus decent legislation, plus some degree of decentralization.

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Re:Google isn’t the company that we should have handed the W... by utopcell on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @09:44PM (#18712596)
> The pragmatic answer is firewalls between layers (i.e. browser separate from search), and competition in layers, plus decent legislation, plus some degree of decentralization.

A long-form way for saying 'unusable'.

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