Comment by wrsh07

4 days ago

Do you think there's a solution that could reasonably be enforced in order to fix that problem?

Forcing Google to sell Chrome!

  • How does that help?

    What business model do we expect chrome to have? The same DOJ doesn't like Google giving Apple money for traffic acquisition. Why would that be allowed for spun-out chrome?

    Why do we expect the rest of the ecosystem to remain static? What do you think Google's next move is if they sell chrome?

    Who do you expect to buy Chrome? Not Facebook. Who else could and would want to?

    This is a solution that has been proposed without really considering any second order effects. Or if they were considered, it was done badly (it would be easy to prove me wrong: they could just write up what they expect to happen, and it would have to be even mildly believable)

    • I would assume they would not want Facebook to buy it, obviously. Microsoft neither.

      I do not have a solution for the business case I have to admit, but it has 60%+ market share I believe, I’m sure someone will figure out something to monetize this.

      It might end up with chrome becoming a worse browser though, that’s not an unlikely outcome at all. But Internet as a whole would be better for it in my view, if google‘s grip got loosened a bit…

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