The web will be far worse off if Google is forced to sell Chrome, even if it's to atone for legitimate ad-market monopoly abuses. Which mean we'll all be worse off as the web would lose ground to actual monopoly platforms, like the iOS App Store and Google's own Play Store. First, Chrome won the browser war fair and square by building ...
  • The_Decryptor@aussie.zoneEnglish
    6·
    24 hours ago

    Look, Google’s trillion-dollar business depends on a thriving web that can be searched by Google.com, that can be plastered in AdSense, and that now can feed the wisdom of AI. Thus, Google’s incredible work to further the web isn’t an act of charity, it’s of economic self-interest, and that’s why it works. Capitalism doesn’t run on benevolence, but incentives.

    My sarcasm sensor is fried these days, but I honestly can’t tell if this is supposed to be satire or not.

    I remember people making the same arguments as to why IE was the best browser and why their anti-trust suit wasn’t fair, didn’t make sense then and doesn’t now,

    • Alexstarfire@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      20 hours ago

      Yea, this reads like 'this will change the entire dynamic of the internet" as if that’s a bad thing and we’re like “yea, that’s the point.”