IT'S FUCKING HAPPENING
whose this no name fuck
Who deserves the rope firstThe trannies who let retarded newfags like the OP post screenshots of social media posts Or the OP
source trust me bro
>>103230322seethe. X is the news now. Citizen journalism, ever heard of that?
>>103230042>source is literal who>only thing google has to do is split browser, they get to keep all their other bullshitnothing is happening.
>>103230188>>103230322>>103230334>>103230351holy shit you're all so retarded https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-18/doj-will-push-google-to-sell-off-chrome-to-break-search-monopoly
oh great now I'll have to either use amazon owned chrome or give Thiel my browsing data
>>103230042they were supposed to stop trump. what happened?https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8C_qHRrUZT0
>>103230361>you're all so retardedstarting a thread with an unsourced twitter claim is retardedgarbage in, garbage out
>>103230188His name is Robert Paulson.
>xitter screenshota mac mini thread died for this
>>103230469kek
Kek chrome will die so fast. The last antitrust shit with payments for search engine preference already put Firefox on suicide watch. Also why is the DoJ not taking down M$, or companies like Oracle or whatever?
>>103230526I doubt it. Chrome will probably become a foundation like Firefox, that won't mean it will die but it will mean Chromium will be much more prevalent since Blink is a standard already and it will be much more susceptible to influence from other companies to do dumb things. Also will leave room for other browser engines to emerge. If Chrome or Blink dies, a fork of it will probably get the marketshare.
>>103230361>muh search monopolywho the fuck even cares about search engines, they're all the same levels of fucked
>>103230042>>103230343>>103230361can we please have a ban on twitter screenshots?
>>103230361That wasn't so hard was it
>>103230795I'm not OP
>>103230772I wish.
>have monopoly browser>sell monopoly browser>someone else have monopoly browsertax money well at work
>>103230361>sell chrome>to break search monopolyWhatMost people who use edge or firefox searches on googleBrowser has nothing to do with it
>>103231017Ok and what about Apple and Safari? This claim of a monopoly on a free and open source browser that basically runs everywhere relevant is pretty insane, but the DoJ is literally peak government: doing everything to cause chaos with shitty 20th century laws that favor a specific class of people.
>>103231074>Ok and what about Apple and Safari? yeah, I don't really care. govmnt just needs to burn.t. uses firefox and ddg (still honeypot, I know)
>>103230042>ChromeNothing_Happens.webp
Government needs to stay out of private business. I didn't vote for this shit wtf.
>>103230453It's formatted like a Bloomberg terminal news entry, so the source is immediately obvious, you'd know that if you weren't a pleb
>>103231063but if you're honest there isn't a big disadvantage or unique selling point google search has, other than "set as standard" and most people don't change it. I use DuckDuckGo since some time, it is better and worse in some regards but overall not that different that I would switch back. What is a bigger problem is the whole ecosystem the average google user is in. They know all your searches on google. They know what you watch on youtube. They track your browsing behaivour with chrome and trackers on websites. They know what you've payed with your phone on google pay. They analyze the images you've uploaded into their cloud. They know where you drive with android auto. But it is minimal efford to at least use some alternatives to these google options. But most people don't even think about what data they give away to google/microsoft/apple at this point.
>>103231167> They know what you've payed with your phone on google pay. Only clinically insane people connect their credit card to their phone lol
>>103230042Enough of the fucking antisemitism.
>>103231124>thinks voting has any sway over anything>implying the cards aren't already played>its all merely just the illusion of choiceKEK you retard
>>103231193I don't even get why anyone think this is practical. In europe we have terminals you just hold your card (or phone) against and pay. It doesn't need less time to grab you phone out of your pocket than your card.
>>103231115You can’t post webps can you?
>>103230042inb4 musk buys it, kek
>>103230578kagi is based tho
>>103231364We can only hope...
>>103230042why sell?it should be FLOSS
>>103230042>monopoly>on something that costs no money and has perfectly usable competitorsThis is only possible in a society of mindless cattle
>>103231905manifest 3 is about weakening all extensions to fuck with ublock to make googles ad empire more profitable
Weren't the anti-competitive practices related to phone search engines and the play store?How does selling chrome solve that? They should be selling the play storeTypical US being impotent and retarded
>>103230453>>103230322Lamestream media is a relic of the boomer era.
>>103230042>sells chrome>same stockholders/board/executives>is still monopolyok what did that fix?
>zerochudfat larper has zero credibility
>>103230042>sell chrome>what is google chrome worth?>possibly BILLIONS OF DOLLARS BECAUSE OF ALL THE DATA ABOUT USERS>what other tech company can buy chrome?>what other tech company can buy chrome and keep adding features, making it open source and most importantly HAS THE MONEY TO BUY IT>microsoft? oracle? facebook? amazon?which of the monopolies is going to buy a portion of the other monopoly?
The only way to kill the Google monopoly on browser development is to stop the W3C standards feature creep. And to remove the DRM from it.
>>103230381Better Thiel than some statist leftwing asshole.
>>103231074chrome is not open source.
>>103232380>lol which monopoly? mono 1
>>103230381You were all on board with eating the bugs and living in the pod, we're gonna let you do that. We're just not going to be joining you.
>>103230496Net positive then.
>>103230772Are you volunteering to an jannie? Didn't think so.
>>103230042I use google only because my email won't be hacked at random. This defeats the whole point of chrome if someone else gets it. Take youtube away from them instead of chrome.
>>103230042Based. Fuck google. They should not have that much control over the internet. We wouldn't have to suffer through webp's existence or worry about ublock.
>>103231364>>103231773Oh boy! I can't wait for the mandatory login requirement! Based Elon strikes again!
>>103232737Wah! I want everything for free. I don't want to pay or contribute, just give it! No, ads are bad too, I'm gonna block them and not pay because I deserve everything other people make just given to me! I don't want to work, just print more monies and give them to me!
>>103230361Next time start your shit thread with a link. Even /pol/ is more civilized than you
A browser I don't use, tied to a search engine with low quality results... How does this affect me? Better question is why does the government care when the browser has to be installed by the user? Nobody is forced to use it.
>>103230042Even if that were true, what does it even mean?I'm sure Chrome is loss leader anywaysDo they force to sell the browser engine (which is unlikely)?If yes, can't they just fork it and spin up another team to write it?If not even that, isn't Chrome basically a thin UI of which dime a dozen exist?This will throw a spanner in Google's works for all of two weeks, as they build a notChrome distribution of the browser rendering engine.
>>103230042Google should be destroyed, it cannot be saved, too many stinky smelly jeets
So what will be the default browser in Android? That grabs 50% market share automatically because of all the third worlders and boomers and Zoomers and women who dont have a PC
>>103231074They have a monopoly on Android. Devs have to use their gay-store.
>>103233807Name ONE good alternative to android
>>103233753Firefox on Android is actually garbageIt's not like the desktop version
>>103230343>Citizen journalism, ever heard of that?Yeah and it's not real.
>>103233941At one time there was Blackberry and Windows Phone, even Ubuntu Mobile showed potential. However, those are all gone now.
>>103230042>Tencent buys Android>oops, it's proprietary now
>>103233978They all sucked
>>103233946I'm using it and while it's garbage it's still the best Android browser. Can even install Bypass Paywalls
>>103231360Not on Four Channel dot org.
>>103230526chrome has a large user base which won't disappear overnight and there's easy ways to monetise those users e.g. branded VPNs or sponsored shortcuts.they'll have enough money to continue development, but not enough money to build google-tracker features like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_Sandbox
>>103232794> ads playing videos> ads playing sound> ads running code> ads trying to install literal malwareYeah no
>>103230188he was using twitter when i was last using it like 7 years agosaddest shit ive ever seen. still trying to "make it" by being an alt right twitter guy and advertising himself on 4chan lol
>pushed to sell a project that costs them hundreds of millions each year to developHow is this supposed to punish Google?If anything their freeriding competitors like Microsoft and Apple will have to pick up the cost. Are you ready for a Chrome+ subscription? Or maybe Chrome should charge big websites to be Chrome-compatible?
>>103230042>less than 1 month to make it happen before Trump changes adminsIt won't happen. The Biden DOJ & FCC have failed miserably against big corps in the last 4 years.
>>103232794I'd be ok with paying money to purchase a web browser if the value proposition is there. What I'm not ok with and never will be is paying to rent software or being forced to watch ads in order to use it. If I buy software I expect to be able to run it on my computer as much as I want until the end of time.
>>103236393that's not really a realistic model for browsers. they need constant security updates, so it would need to be some form of SaaS. buying once and owning wouldn't work here.
>>103237248That's the model that all software used for the first 40 years of existence. You paid for a major version and got all minor updates for free. When the next major version was released, you could choose to upgrade or continue using the old version if you wanted to. There's no reason that wouldn't work for web browsers too. It would have been the way we'd be doing it now if Microsoft hadn't used its monopoly position to kill Netscape.
>>103233807So why doesn't the DOJ do something useful like force them to sell android?
>"it's happening">19 hours ago, 75 replies
>>103237280yeah, most people just run linux/firefox or some other non-google chromium/Thorium, etc. This will just make the split more clear in the end. very little to nothing has happened.nothing will continue to happen.
>>103232735fucking webp
>>103230042>doj
>>103230042>DOJ will push for giving Apple the total monopoly instantly instead of having to wait for two more yearsFucking retarded, the only value Chrome has is as a vehicle to help datamine for advertising.I wouldn't have thought it was possible there are people more retarded than the chumps Trump is picking? Why are they even trying to start something this big when most of them will be out in a couple months?
WE WILL NOW CALL IT RUMBLE CHROME BECAUSE WE RUMBLED THE LIBTARDS.
What's the point of selling something that's 99.99% FOSS?Google can just start a new chromium fork.
>>103237273>So why doesn't the DOJ do something useful like force them to sell android?That's just as retarded. Google needs to sell everything except their search and advertising branch.Chrome, Android, ChromeOS, Play Services, Google Docs, Gmail, Google Cloud. They are all part of an integral ecosystem. Unless Apple gets broken up, the only thing which can compete with a complete ecosystem is another complete ecosystem.As long as Android/ChromeOS/etc ecosystem depends on selling customer data to external advertisers for most of their income, it's going to slowly bleed to death.
>>103237531>Rumble
>>103237556>Google can just start a new chromium fork.that would be a ballsy move
>>103230042>make corporation>become successful >government tries to destroy youWhat a fucking disgrace, I hope Trump will stop this before it's too late, regulations are cancer.
>>103230042>Chromium is FOSS>Chrome is just a skin>Chrome is also useless without integration into Google's ecosystem>Chrome is sold>Google forks Chromium>adds codecs>adds updates and sync>hurr durrr "Google Trek">Chrome browser loses all of it's users to Trek>Look at us, we did something™ to combat the corporations!A possible future emerges - one where Firefox is killed off because Google isn't allowed to fund it, while the Chromium project gets "sold" along with Chrome.The buyer - undoubtedly a capitalist/expansionist corporation with very little interest or experience will immediately destroy compatibility and demand large sums of money for use of Chromium in order to recuperate their "investment".Vivaldi Technologies, Opera and Brave Software will go bankrupt, all venturing into AI and web-design, together with Mozilla.Microsoft, unwilling to pay, will drop Chrome support and promptly revive EdgeHTML (Trident), now to be the only proper browser available alongside Ladybird and Pale Moon (kek!)Discord and other Electron apps will run to Tauri, as a loophole, until that also dies.Microsoft looking at the chaos has the idea of the century: Why make just a browser, when you can make a super app?A webkit, a messenger, a gaming messenger and an AI assistant all in one - directly integrated into Windows and Xbox. While the others perished, they persevered.And so it came to be that Microsoft won the browser war, years after it ended, and the messenger war, and the console war, and the chatbot war, and the distro war, all thanks to one small action by one well-meaning judge.
>>103237597I will fucking skin you alive given the chance. They don't even pay you to suck their cock and ingest their shit. Kill yourself you absolute subhuman
>>103237729don't choke on that govmnt cock, faggot
>>103237729just shut the fuck up and sock my penis
>>103237747>>103237786Kill yourself, subhuman cattle like you will eventually be killed anyway. KILL YOUR FUCKING SELVES you are literal pigs to the slaughter and loving it, kill your fucking worthless selves before someone else does
>>103237867just shut the fuck up, I would you own with ease and your ass already belongs in my asshole. You have been OWNED son.
>>103237556Does Google even own Chrome, or do the developers maintain copyright?FOSS can be revoked, so it would be the funniest thing ever if Google said, "Chrome for sale! $50 billion;" somebody bought it, and then the developers said, "Hey, all you bought was the name. We revoke your right to distribute our code."
