Re:DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome
by rusk on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @04:30AM
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hopefully the fines you get from some of the worlds wealthiest nations wouldn’t eclipse the profit you’d make
Re:DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome
by arcticbull on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @04:35AM
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But they sell everyone’s browsing data to the highest bidder already, how would this be different? That’s their… entire… business model…
Re:DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome
by flanked-evergl on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @06:03AM
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cite?
Chrome is already closed-source. The chromium project can't be closed because it's already free and released.
The new Chrome company could stop contributing back to Chromium if they wanted, but it would mean they'd diverge from the other browsers backed by the OSS project which is one of their big advantages.
I'm not saying they wouldn't do that or it wouldn't work out, but it's not an obvious win.
We all like to have a high minded ideal of some kind of wonderful fully independent for-the-good-of-society entity stewarding Chrome, but history has shown us that’s not what will happen.