It says the government is asking for far too much.

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

    • ElectricEnglish
      -13•3 months ago

      Any company can do that. That’s why it’s more important to have new browsers (THAT AREN’T CHROMIUM, LOOKING AT YOU EDGE) for competition. Making a company sell the browser used by the majority of people is absolutely not the answer. That’s gambling.

      • @deegeese@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        9•3 months ago

        Gambling? LOL.

        The normal solution to a monopoly is forced breakup and divesture. Why does Google deserve to be above the law?

        • @legion02@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4•3 months ago

          With the expected costs of a web browser by the general public being $0, what company would want it that isn’t going to do that? Even Firefox survives off ad revenue. There is no “browser market”, there’s an ad market.

        • @BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.ukEnglish
          1•3 months ago

          I’d also imagine Google won’t be prevented from owning a browser indefinitely - if it’s still worth it they’ll create a new browser and try to recapture the market, further diversifying the market.

    • @john89@lemmy.caEnglish
      4•3 months ago

      Chrome’s ubiquity is bad for browsers.

      I’m glad I switched back to Firefox after learning that Google removed AdNauseam from their addon store. It’s an app that clicks ads in addition to blocking them. It wasn’t breaking any rules, but google removed it and since there wasn’t sufficient backlash it was never restored.

      That kind of scummy behavior should never be rewarded with continued patronage.

    • @nous@programming.devEnglish
      2•3 months ago

      So it would be really good for everyone if they were forced to sell Chrome

      And who do you think would buy it? Loads of companies will be jumping at the chance not out of the goodness of their hearts but because they can see massive profits if they can control it. Very likely will start to squeeze it for all the profit they can and the enshitification process will begin.

      For all the bad the Google has done they have kept chrome relatively free from the enshitification process. Likely as so much of their business would not exist if people didn’t have a good browser to access their services on.