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Re:Google Being Forced to Sell Chrome Is Not Good for the Web by danaris on Saturday March 15, 2025 @09:48AM (#43372515)
If Chrome cannot succeed on its own, but under Google it is an oppressive force taking over the vast majority of web marketshare, that is a textbook case for antitrust action. That is Google using its dominance in one market (search, advertising) to expand into and dominate another market (web browsers).

If a hypothetical Chrome Corp. couldn't figure out how to use the exact same data Google is harvesting with the browser to at least move in the direction of profitability, then they're hypothetically idiots.

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Re:Google Being Forced to Sell Chrome Is Not Good for the Web by Jensson on Saturday March 15, 2025 @10:51AM (#43372906)
> If a hypothetical Chrome Corp. couldn't figure out how to use the exact same data Google is harvesting with the browser to at least move in the direction of profitability, then they're hypothetically idiots.

Selling that data to the government and other corporations is user hostile though, and that is exactly what is going to happen when Google is forced to sell.

I can see why the government would love this though so it makes sense they pursue this hard now,

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Re:Google Being Forced to Sell Chrome Is Not Good for the Web by danaris on Saturday March 15, 2025 @06:08PM (#43375451)
I'm genuinely unsure whether it's better or worse now, with Google having the exclusive rights to that data and using it for its own purposes.

(It's probably a bit better, assuming the hypothetical sale is to all comers, but still...)

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