Comment by throwinothrside
6 days ago
I have a feeling this will get worse. I can think of these companies which have the resources to take over Chrome - Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and Facebook.
I can't see anybody else. They are all monopolies and is gonna screw it up big time for us consumers.
>I can think of these companies which have the resources to take over Chrome...
Exactly, who on Earth could build a competitor? You're describing the problem!
The ability to take stunning losses each year without worry, knowing that it pays dividends in the value to search, ensures competition can't flourish. So it is anti-competitive.
I am definitely not a google fan here. In fact a privacy nerd. But if they sell it off like this, it will hurt consumers more.
We need to make Google play by the rules so that we can set an example for the rest. Not recreate the same problem with another company so that we will have to do the same after a decade all over again.
Cos at that point, nothing will change for the consumers except the brand logo of the company that is doing crazy things.
Nor am I advocating that these companies take it over.
If it can't stand on its own, it's not competing fairly.
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Same.
This seems like a 'lets pretend to hurt google' thing.
No one complained about Chrome.
Am not saying no one complained about it. FLoC aand many many decisions by google proves they are horrible. But I dont think this will solve the problem. This will make it more worse.