Google says government proposals would “harm America’s consumers.”…
  • mke@programming.dev
    16·
    3 months ago

    Google has gotten its first taste of remedies that Donald Trump’s Department of Justice plans to pursue to break up the tech giant’s monopoly in search.

    Wasn’t this all started before Trump was even elected? It actually began October 2020, then in 2023 another case was brought up. Anyway, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Trump administration gave Google a break here after some poorly disguised bribes. It’s too soon to be claiming they’ll do anything. Weird phrasing, considering what’s happening.

  • Scoopta@programming.dev
    21·
    3 months ago

    This will be really interesting, especially given the Firefox fiasco and the fact that chrome is open source. Assuming it stays open source will Google just fork it and make their own chromium browser? Guess we’ll see

    • RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      3 months ago

      During the term of the judgment, Google would not be allowed to release any new browsers. However, it may continue to contribute to the open source Chromium project.

      Potentially later, but I’m not sure people would switch at that point