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Re:Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000 by scarface_74 on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @10:26AM (#43026296)
Where is the profit for the individual product? There are a lot of services at every BigTech company that would not make sense as an individual product. But they make the overall ecosystem better or make money only because they are a part of the larger company.

That’s part of the stupidity of the DOJ trying to force Google to sell Chrome. Who would want it? And how would they profit from it?

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Re:Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000 by hypothesis on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @02:20PM (#43028768)
> That’s part of the stupidity of the DOJ trying to force Google to sell Chrome. Who would want it? And how would they profit from it?

All valid questions, but it might be that splitting the tool used to bludgeon everyone around is still worth it, even if pace of development slows down considerably.

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Re:Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000 by scarface_74 on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @02:46PM (#43029017)
There will be no development. Who is going to spend money to develop it and why would they? Microsoft even decided it wasn’t worth it to develop their own engine.

Unless you are using Chromebooks, every desktop user who uses Chrome made an affirmative choice to download it.

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Re:Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000 by hypothesis on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @03:11PM (#43029255)
> There will be no development.

My point is that maybe it is okay? Runaway churn is at least partially responsible for current situation, where most companies simply unable to compete.

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Re:Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000 by scarface_74 on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @03:23PM (#43029376)
What companies are trying to “compete” in the browser space?

Apple has no reason to compete, it can just make more and more functionality for native apps as can Google if it doesn’t have to worry about Chrome anymore.

Microsoft doesn’t care about the browser anymore and just uses Chromium. Firefox’s revenue comes completely from Google. If Google doesn’t have to prop up Firefox for antitrust reasons anymore, why would they?

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Re:Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000 by rvba on Thursday February 13, 2025 @01:23AM (#43033252)
The firefox admin are making millions of dollars per year even if they make one bad decision after another (mostly focusing on acqusitions and new projects instead of actual work on their core product: firefox).
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