Divesting Android is still on the table.
  • 200ok@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    29 days ago

    Alphabet’s Chief Legal Officer Kent Walker, says the DOJ is pushing “a radical interventionist agenda that would harm Americans and America’s global technology leadership.”

    I’m honestly curious how this would “harm Americans”.

    • webghost0101@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      8·
      29 days ago

      Google pretending they have any other nationality other then “the global internet” is cute in a disgusting way.

      • Tinidril@midwest.socialEnglish
        1·
        27 days ago

        I refuse to call any Billionaires Americans. A billionaire in America has far more in common with a billionaire in Ireland or France than with working class Americans. They don’t use our schools, drink our water, drive our roads, or rely on our safety nets. They don’t take out the trash, do their laundry, wait 6 months for a doctor’s appointment, or stress over defunding their retirement to pay for needed medication.

        Billionaire involvement in politics should be considered foreign interference. Of course AIPAC is foreign interference too, but apparently that’s not a problem either.

    • Jo Miran@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      28 days ago

      …a radical interventionist agenda…

      That language seems very “Trump-esque”, and I doubt it is a coincidence.

    • nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyzEnglish
      01·
      28 days ago

      How does chrome make money? It uses ads from Google, chrome on it’s own is not a business.

      Say you buy chrome, you have to options

      1. Ads built into chrome itself (when you’re in the settings menu, homepage, reading a PDF, playing the dino game)

      2. Force your own default search engine, or get a company like Google or Bing to pay you for the privilege of being a default search engine.

      Neither of these options are better than the status quo

  • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    28 days ago

    Ehh just fight it for a month pay king trump some money and bam their golden.

    • net00@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      28 days ago

      Yeah, Google pays other companies lots of money to have its search engine enabled by default. That’s what the lawsuit argued, so I’m not sure how separating chrome from the company will change that…

  • 200ok@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    29 days ago

    If they’re allowed to choose who they sell it to this won’t change anything

  • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    28 days ago

    There’s literally so much else they should do, google docs, sheets, drive, phones, maps, earth, calendar, play store, translate, etc.
    Good work, continue please.

    • Kbobabob@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      28 days ago

      What is the issue with docs, sheets, drive, phones, calendar, play store?

      There seems to be plenty of options in all of these spaces. Play store isn’t even on a lot of android devices.

      • BenLeMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        28 days ago

        Correct. My example for another necessary intervention would be YouTube. That’s a space in which Google does have a monopoly.

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    28 days ago

    This is the last antitrust win we’ll get for years, isn’t it?

    I know Trump doesn’t like Big Tech, but I doubt his admin will punish them meaningfully, but just rail about censorship.

    • babybus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      28 days ago

      This isn’t a win I think. They are yet to meet in the court with Google.

      The DOJ will file a revised version of its proposals in early March, before the government and Google return to the DC District Court in April for a two-week remedies trial.

  • ROAGO@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    27 days ago

    Why is everyone acting like this is a thing that will happen? All they have to do is wait roughly 90 days and it’ll all go away.

  • Bosht@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    27 days ago

    Just…please for the love of whatever diety do Microsoft. Fucking sick of their shit recently with One Drive.

      • Bosht@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        28 days ago

        Man the Linux propaganda is STRONG on Lemmy. I’ll say what I’ve said before: I use my computer for gaming, web browsing, and managing a media server for my family that hosts pictures and other things. If those 3 things can be done easily without issue on a Linux distro without having to fuck around with configs every time I want to do something, I’m all in. By what I’ve heard though it’s just not there yet. I am super happy Steam decided to go Linux for their Steamdeck though as I’ve heard thats helped make monumental strides the right direction. Trust me, I want to. Large part of it is I worked tech support for over a decade and having to troubleshoot my own shit is like the furthest thing I want to deal with haha

        • Zink@programming.devEnglish
          1·
          28 days ago

          You owe it to yourself to try it out! I recommend dual booting into Linux Mint Cinnamon for a while and have your windows install to fall back on to. That or one of the gaming-specific distributions, but from what I’ve seen Mint does all with gaming too. It’s a good all-around starting place, and there are a lot of resources because it’s popular and built off of the most popular distro. I installed it on my work machine (software engineering) and I’ve felt no lack of capability or a need to switch to a more “hardcore” distro.

  • Decker108@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    28 days ago

    Like someone commented in another fediverse community: this court case can really only keep going for two more months, after that it’s anyone’s guess what will happen to the court: Alphabet could bribe someone in the DOJ to make the case disappear or (and this is the funny one) law and order could breakdown completely, rendering the case, the court and all the rest of society moot.

  • rockSlayer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    29 days ago

    They should force it to become a worker cooperative. It’s the only solution that doesn’t allow for corruption

  • kibiz0r@midwest.socialEnglish
    1·
    28 days ago

    People wondering what Chrome has to do with a search monopoly:

    The obvious benefit is that they can default the user’s search provider to Google.

    But the more nefarious benefit is that, by controlling both the client and server, they can unilaterally decide the future of web standards. They don’t have to advocate for proposals, gain consensus, and limit themselves to well-supported standards the way other companies do. They can just do it, gain the first-mover advantage, and force others to follow suit.

    If they don’t like HTTP/2, they can invent their own protocol and implement it for their search servers and Chrome. Suddenly, using Chrome with Google Search is way faster than using Chrome with Bing or using Firefox with Google Search. Even if Microsoft and Mozilla don’t like the protocol, they now have to adopt it or fall behind.

    This has happened. QUIC was deployed in 2012. Firefox gained support in 2021.

    They’re doing the same thing with Privacy Sandbox, and you can also look at browser feature compatibility tables to see how eager Google is to force their own interpretation of every not-yet-finalized web standard as the canonical interpretation.

    Edit: Also, JPEG XL vs. WebP.