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Comment by LatteLazy

5 days ago

Every time these cases come up, I ask the same question: what is this supposed to actually achieve and how will it work?

Who will buy chrome? And how will they make a profit from doing so?

Presumably they will charge google for good to remain the default search engine? But then we will just end up in the same place as now won't we? (Chrome being a popular but not the only browser; Google being the default but not only search engine).

So how will this make the end user or the advertisers (don't forget, they are the consumer here, since they are paying, not the user) richer or happier or whatever else?

People seem stuck on "monopoly bad" and that something has to be done. But are not clear on what the harm is here, or how to prevent that harm. Instead, this is something and something has to be done...