• ArugulaZ@lemmy.zip
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      4 months ago

      It saddens me to agree with this. Who knew Google would become as oppressive as fucking MICROSOFT?

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      It really wouldn’t change anything in the long run. Any company that creates a browser is gonna need some form of income and people aren’t willing to pay for a browser. What would be their incentive to continue to work on the browser when they aren’t being paid?

      • humorlessrepost@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        Same as Firefox. Let search engines (including google) pay them a fair market rate to make them the default browser.

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      4 months ago

      I hear the term ‘broken up’ a lot in media and discourse, but it’s never explained. In your eyes, what actually happens when a government ‘breaks up’ a corporation? I mean, what are the steps, objectives, and outcomes?

      Not being adversarial, I’m just curious.

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        Not the person you’re asking, but my general understanding is that different products would be required to be their own companies, so advertising, Android, and Chrome would all be separate businesses.

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        I envision it like AT&T’s break-up, where the singular Google is broken up into regional companies that will (hopefully) have to compete with each other.