Ok but is this like REAL yet or did they just say they intend to?
Reading the article helps to answer this question:
The DOJ is asking the court to force Google to promptly and fully divest itself of Chrome, along with any data or other assets required for its continued operation.
It also links the filing, see specifically “III. Plaintiffs’ Revised Proposed Final Judgment”
So…. What are the odds on fElon ending up owning some of this shit?
Depends on how low we can sink his Tesla stock.
It’s a team effort, if everyone throws one Molotov we can be done by April.
Sell it to who?
I would laugh if a European company stepped in to buy it. Most used browser in the whole entire world bought by a European company? Would absolutely be hilarious and I’d be so down for that to happen.
Take a guess who’s going to buy it.
Monkey Paw:
Chrome is now owned by X
Its now known as Xrome
X for the swastica, and rome for the “roman” (aka: nazi) salute
Ykno what good. Maybe it’ll cause Mozilla to get off their asses and DO SOMETHING.
The monkey giggles. Mozilla completely pivots to adtech & AI.
Little does the monkey know theyre already starting that and I’m not surprised
Google says government proposals would “harm America’s consumers.”
Says the company that couldn’t stand by the core value “don’t be evil”.
Google is awful, but any other company that could afford to buy and run Chrome would be worse.
Heaven forbid it becomes its own company/a non profit.
Microsoft Chrome - now with Cortana!
The DOJ is asking the court to force Google to promptly and fully divest itself of Chrome, along with any data or other assets required for its continued operation. It is essentially aiming to take the Chrome user base—consisting of some 3.4 billion people—away from Google and hand it to a competitor
Fuck yes, shatter that shit.
Yeah but is it Elon&friends who will get to buy it?
The optimist in me hopes not, but only time will tell.
If he does i hope he tanks it so badly that it loses a huge chunk of market share - ideally when ladybird is ready.
Is ladybird some FF replacement?
It’s a completely built from scratch browser https://ladybird.org/, very exciting.
There’s also https://servo.org/ (was mozilla but now linux foundation), but it seems to be going slower.
Sadly, Servo more or less halted when Mozilla laid off people in 2020. It only really started back up in 2023 when they secured new external funding. That said, I don’t think Servo intends to be a fully-fledged Browser like Ladybird. While LB intends to be a car, Servo plans to be a great engine, but only that.
…on the other hand, Ladybird’s lead dev seems like trouble. So maybe I’d rather wait for a Servo-based browser instead.
Shatter it and probably have it bought out by Elon.
Elon’s a dunce, so he’ll probably enshittify it so badly that people will leave. So google is weakened and chrome dies (at least, i hope in a good outcome)
Seriously. The only people willing to pay what it’s “worth” will end up doing the same thing (or worse).
What we need are some actual privacy laws with teeth, so that the data isn’t worth as much to begin with.
