throwinothrside

Sure. In an ideal world. But let's be real here. FB or Microsoft or Amazon will buy it. Do the same shi*y things google were doing (in fact, probably more) and consumers will have even more worse experience. Cos only these companies have the resources.

Not to mention, Its impossible for Chrome to be a standalone business without being even more outrageous to consumers. And they will be even more evil against users. Mark my words.

If we do this like this, we are just replacing the logos of companies that own Chrome. Not the end result. We need to fix the root cause.

I am definitely not a google fan here. In fact a privacy nerd. But if they sell it off like this, it will hurt consumers more.

We need to make Google play by the rules so that we can set an example for the rest. Not recreate the same problem with another company so that we will have to do the same after a decade all over again.

Cos at that point, nothing will change for the consumers except the brand logo of the company that is doing crazy things.

Am not saying no one complained about it. FLoC aand many many decisions by google proves they are horrible. But I dont think this will solve the problem. This will make it more worse.

I have a feeling this will get worse. I can think of these companies which have the resources to take over Chrome - Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and Facebook.

I can't see anybody else. They are all monopolies and is gonna screw it up big time for us consumers.

Android shares my location more than 14 times a day IIRC. They snoop through every single thing in my life. I can list a bizillion no. Of things. Zero damn given when they are horrible. Let them stop with dark patterns. Then I will start caring.

I pay for all my games, all good services which ainuse. I try and donate to open source project wherever and when I can. But I couldnt care less about FAANG like companies. If they want us to be good to them, let them be good first.

Hell, its just the other day we were talking about Youtube showing ads to paying customers. I really dont care whether a company is big or small. When companies are bad, they just are. That is it. I dont lose sleep over using FreeTube for watching youtube videos for free. Paying will solve issues, yeah right!

Edit: Language