Comment by Certhas
6 days ago
Firefox is massively profitable. Why couldn't Chrome be?
Goggle would compete with other search engines for being the default search. So this would have knock on effects on search as well.
6 days ago
Firefox is massively profitable. Why couldn't Chrome be?
Goggle would compete with other search engines for being the default search. So this would have knock on effects on search as well.
Firefox is profitable thanks to Google's money, and Google are probably so generous with them to ensure they have some competition. In the EU, OSes and browsers have to ask the user which browser and search engine they want to use, and an independent Chrome might be forced to follow the same logic. Then Google would have little incentive to splash as much money.
Google has to provide a choice screen. It's not an automatic given that independent Chrome would have to.
Google Chrome is explicitly one of the things Alphabet are listed as a gatekeeper on, with an explicit decision: https://digital-markets-act-cases.ec.europa.eu/cases/DMA.100...
So I don't see how an independent Chrome would be much different.
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