Summary
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) plans to ask a judge to force Google to sell its Chrome browser, aiming to break up its dominance in the search market and address antitrust violations.
The DoJ also seeks structural remedies for Google’s role in artificial intelligence and the Android ecosystem, along with data licensing requirements.
Google, controlling 90% of the global search market, has called the actions an overreach that would harm consumers.
This follows an earlier court ruling finding Google guilty of maintaining an illegal monopoly. Proposed remedies are due by December 20.
- Divest android to a new corporation in a tax haven
- “license” android to google for more money than they make from selling phones
- write loss off in tax
the starbucks model
So I don’t get how this addresses the anti trust issues… So Google doesn’t own the browser, won’t they still make deals to be the default search engine across all devices? Don’t they still manipulate search results to benefit themselves and their ad revenue above the quality of their search results?
I don’t care if they own Chrome. Force them to sell their advertising business.
I’ve been boycotting Chrome for years; I don’t understand how it’s still a thing.
Many mobile apps are just stripped-down web browsers hard coded to only access one website. Most of those type of app are built on Chromium.
It’s embedded in every smart TV and most other IoT devices that require some kind of web interface.
Yes, I’m sure that someone else will want to buy Google’s loss leader, Chrome, so they too can spend a bunch of money to get sued.
It would make more sense and be more effective to require them to spin off DoubleClick/display ads.
They need to turn plans into actions before Jan 20th.
This is a good first step. Force the browser into an open source project and allow everyone to submit code to it.
Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t that what Chromium is?
Yes that is correct.
So they will still maintain Chromium but not have a flavour right?
It will be a toothless effort. Splitting up Google or any tech giant at anything near the scale of the Ma Bell breakup is a pipe dream in modern, corporate-owned America. It does not matter how big these companies get. They’ve already won, so the only way to get any headway is changing the game.
