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A comment on Google’s approach to replacing the cookie is drawing antitrust scrutiny. Parent comment

Re:Google’s approach to replacing the cookie is drawing anti... by seaman1921 on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @06:15PM (#26020529)
Honestly several of these guys just want to promote 'break google up' every chance they get just because it makes them feel good - without understanding how bad the consequences would be.
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Re:Google’s approach to replacing the cookie is drawing anti... by neolog on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @06:47PM (#26020800)
What would the bad consequences be?
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Re:Google’s approach to replacing the cookie is drawing anti... by sdenton4 on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @10:34PM (#26022288)
One example: The road from security to revenue is a bit windy. So suppose chrome gets a revenue crunch after getting spun off, and lays off a bunch of the security group. Well, it turns out that security group is actually handling security for ALL of the browsers, because security is expensive, and none of the browsers are really making money, and chrome is open source. So now you've got reduced security in all of the browsers. Whoops?
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Re:Google’s approach to replacing the cookie is drawing anti... by neolog on Thursday February 04, 2021 @09:57PM (#26032539)
Sure, could happen. Or maybe more of the relevant players share the load, the way they do with the kernel.
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