Google adsense is the only profitable arm of the enterprise. If google sells chrome-- to whom? Microsoft? Meta? Amazon?
I don't want to engage in an argument about the 'devil you know' being trustworthy, because web manifest v3 proves google isn't. But when the DOJ talks about splitting off the fruits of the monopoly without striking the root... how realistic are their asks?
Yea, that's a problem: many Google products are run at a loss to prop up their ad business. If somebody bought them they'd have to fundamentally change them to turn a profit.
With Chrome maybe the software industry could create a shared foundation because so many big browsers rely on Chrome these days.
Yeah. I believe Google is paying Mozilla $400 million a year to cover their operating costs. It probably would have been better if Google had been broken up 15 years ago when we had a more fragmented industry before everything started running on the Chromium engine.
Chrome addresses what probably the government thinks is the problem. I think they're stuck on the browser wars and probably congratulating themselves for killing Internet Exploder.
The rest of us are concerned about Google's poor behavior in the free speech space. And ad market manipulation.
Google adsense is the only profitable arm of the enterprise. If google sells chrome-- to whom? Microsoft? Meta? Amazon?
I don't want to engage in an argument about the 'devil you know' being trustworthy, because web manifest v3 proves google isn't. But when the DOJ talks about splitting off the fruits of the monopoly without striking the root... how realistic are their asks?
Yea, that's a problem: many Google products are run at a loss to prop up their ad business. If somebody bought them they'd have to fundamentally change them to turn a profit.
With Chrome maybe the software industry could create a shared foundation because so many big browsers rely on Chrome these days.
Yeah. I believe Google is paying Mozilla $400 million a year to cover their operating costs. It probably would have been better if Google had been broken up 15 years ago when we had a more fragmented industry before everything started running on the Chromium engine.
Chrome addresses what probably the government thinks is the problem. I think they're stuck on the browser wars and probably congratulating themselves for killing Internet Exploder.
The rest of us are concerned about Google's poor behavior in the free speech space. And ad market manipulation.
They will probably spin it off into a 501(c)3 or something similar to the Mozilla Foundation.