Google is offering a far more pared-down solution to the court’s ruling that it illegally monopolized search

  • nous@programming.dev
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    2 days ago

    should a third-party acquire control over chrome’s development, mv3 gets shredded. restrictions and limitations on adblockers get scaled-back or reverted outright.

    That is far too optimistic. If the courts force a sale then a for profit company will but it expecting a return on investment. Which very likely means more monetisation efforts like embedding ads or even more tracking built into it. It is a fantasy to think who ever gets it will scale anything you dislike about it back.

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      I’d be interested in what restrictions are between those two companies, because it seems to me like there’d be a lot of money in making Chrome what Google wants it to be.

      I’m already out. Linux desktop, Firefox browser. It’s enough for me. Fuck MS, fuck Google, fuck Apple.