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DOJ says Google must sell Chrome to crack open its search monopoly(www.theverge.com)

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asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world
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It has 67% market share, and the default search is Google.

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So it is on firefox as well . . ? And also with Edge, for those poor bastards.

Why not just force them to pick a different default? Or something meaningful like splitting them out of Alphabet entirely? Or stop sucking? Okay, well that last one may be hard to administrate.

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It is on FF and Edge because Google pays them a ton of money. Every person who chooses Chrome instead of FF is more money for Google because they don’t need to pay themselves to make Google the default.

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A fair point, though “a ton of money” is essentially 1% of their net profits for the year. Selling Chrome to someone who gets another .5% is not going to do anything at all.

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