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Google to court: we’ll change our Apple deal, but please let us keep Chrome (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Google is offering a far more pared-down solution to the court’s ruling that it illegally monopolized search

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

It's a good question because maintaining a modern web browser is a complicated and expensive project, which any potential buyer would have to sustain financially somehow. Chrome without the integrated ad service business would probably be highly unprofitable - so why would any business take it on?

The only real answer I can come up with is pretty ugly: data mining. Lots of services are dependent on Chrome that can't just move to a new platform on short notice. Chrome is not just the web browser, it's also the web engine for most mobile apps (a lot of apps are just stripped-down Chrome with a hard-coded server target).

Chrome has basically sucked all the air out of the room for other browser projects, so maybe taking it away from Google will create some space for new projects to grow... but it's hard to see any of them becoming well-developed and trustworthy for things like health data, government services, financial transactions &etc anytime soon.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

but it’s hard to see any of them becoming well-developed and trustworthy for things like health data, government services, financial transactions &etc anytime soon.

I honestly don't See the Relation to Chrome.

You're suggesting that a PWA running on Firefox isn't suitable for this?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Oh no, Firefox is fine, possibly better than Chrome in that aspect. I'm thinking more about any other browser projects that might come up if Chrome is taken from Google and then collapses.

Or, what happens if a potentially bad actor acquires Chrome, and where does that leave all of the apps that are built around it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Then they will Switch to another Browser, or there will be a drop-In replacement for Electron.

It's Not that hard for the developers to Block Chrome then