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DOJ: Google must sell Chrome to end monopoly (techcrunch.com)

submitted 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The United States Department of Justice argued Wednesday that Google should divest its Chrome browser as part of a remedy to break up the company’s illegal monopoly in online search, according to a U.S District Court of the District of Columbia filing.

Case file: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.223205/gov.uscourts.dcd.223205.1062.0.pdf

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

... And Google with just fork Chrome and then use its monopoly in advertising to dominate with whatever the new name is.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 hours ago

Yeah like, that won't end the monopoly. We have YouTube effectively treated like an information utility. This is a company that would have already been nationalized by a sane country.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Just spinning off chrome feels like not enough to me. I wonder what the final package will look like.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

They need to spin off chrome, Adsense, analytics and search.

Analytics shouldn’t carry Adsense Adsense needs to have arms length deals with EVERYONE chrome needs to be its own thing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

And Android

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

It's too bad this won't mean shit here in a couple of months.