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US justice department plans to push Google to sell off Chrome browser
(www.theguardian.com)
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this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2024
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Who would realistically buy Chrome that wouldn't degrade the consumer experience?
Also, would Google lose incentive to target the web entirely with its properties? In other words, what happens to the web if Google's focus shifts entirely to Android?
Hopefully noone, so it would lead into more fragmentation in the browser space, which is a good things.
Well, it doesn’t necessarily need to be bought, it just needs to not be part of alphabet anymore. I think the ideal outcome is actually that chrome become an independent non-profit that maintains an important piece of software using funding from a consortium of different sources that want it to continue to exist.
This kind of thing is actually very very common and far from a new concept.