EU to unveil landmark law curbing power of tech giants

Re:EU to unveil landmark law curbing power of tech giants by majewsky on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @07:16AM (#25429557)

> Chrome at least would never be viable as a standalone product (as the fates of Mozilla and Opera have taught us).

Firefox has been viable as a standalone product for over a decade because Google pays for being the default search engine. This is roughly viable with Chrome being around, it would be even more viable if Chrome was not around.

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Re:EU to unveil landmark law curbing power of tech giants by est31 on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @09:35AM (#25430660)

And Google pays far more to Apple because they have more users. This would probably be dwarfed by what they'd pay to a hypothetical independent Chromium Inc. that develops the browser.

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Re:EU to unveil landmark law curbing power of tech giants by FreakyT on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @10:07AM (#25430936)

Hard to say -- In Apple's case, there are so many potential users it's worth Google's money to get their search engine as the default.

However, Mozilla doesn't have a massive userbase like that, which leads me to suspect that Google only pays Mozilla to stave off pressure form regulators who would otherwise accuse them of having a monopoly on browsers.

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Re:EU to unveil landmark law curbing power of tech giants by gpm on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @10:33AM (#25431173)

If chrome didn't exist, I'd say that it's more likely than not that Firefox would have the majority of windows uses...

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