Sounds like they are preparing for this by killing off ChromeOS
https://www.androidauthority.com/chrome-os-becoming-android-3500661/
this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2024
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Big doubt anything actually happens.
Is the DOJ the only working system in the US now?
FTC works. For now.
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The Reuters article suggests prohibiting payments to Apple so that Chrome users on their hardware default to Google search. What about default settings to Firefox? Similar agreements finance a large portion of Mozilla's revenue.
Yeah, see all this stuff happening between now and inauguration day. See, we did something. Too little, too late. If there are ever free and fair elections in this country, and the Democrats return to power, they better get their fucking shit together. The dismantling of the Federal government will be almost impossible to reverse.
Admittedly, I don't know enough about monopolies and antitrust laws to know how much this matters. Can someone ELI5 this and give us more info?
What the what?
"sell your browser, that'll limit your search monopoly"
. . . HAH?
It has 67% market share, and the default search is Google.
So it is on firefox as well . . ? And also with Edge, for those poor bastards.
Why not just force them to pick a different default? Or something meaningful like splitting them out of Alphabet entirely? Or stop sucking? Okay, well that last one may be hard to administrate.
It is on FF and Edge because Google pays them a ton of money. Every person who chooses Chrome instead of FF is more money for Google because they don't need to pay themselves to make Google the default.
A fair point, though "a ton of money" is essentially 1% of their net profits for the year. Selling Chrome to someone who gets another .5% is not going to do anything at all.