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DOJ: Google must sell Chrome, Android could be next (arstechnica.com)
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[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 67 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

The DOJ is asking the court to force Google to promptly and fully divest itself of Chrome, along with any data or other assets required for its continued operation. It is essentially aiming to take the Chrome user base—consisting of some 3.4 billion people—away from Google and hand it to a competitor

Fuck yes, shatter that shit.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Shatter it and probably have it bought out by Elon.

[–] radix@lemmy.world 42 points 8 hours ago

Seriously. The only people willing to pay what it's "worth" will end up doing the same thing (or worse).

What we need are some actual privacy laws with teeth, so that the data isn't worth as much to begin with.

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Elon's a dunce, so he'll probably enshittify it so badly that people will leave. So google is weakened and chrome dies (at least, i hope in a good outcome)

[–] NightOwl@lemmy.one 14 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

That regular people would stop using chrome if it turned into xhrome is highly unlikely. These are people who browse without adblocker, use facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and buy Amazon echos. It'd just lead to Doge influencing the direction of xhromium based browsers.

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 hours ago

True :( but we've seen how stupid he is, and now bluesky has become xitter's #1 competitor because of his incompetence. Maybe, maybe, maybe...

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah but is it Elon&friends who will get to buy it?

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

The optimist in me hopes not, but only time will tell.

If he does i hope he tanks it so badly that it loses a huge chunk of market share - ideally when ladybird is ready.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Is ladybird some FF replacement?

[–] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

It's a completely built from scratch browser https://ladybird.org/, very exciting.

There's also https://servo.org/ (was mozilla but now linux foundation), but it seems to be going slower.